Comments on: Using Cranial Osteopathy to help a baby who cries a lot

By: ackers

ackers — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:36:29 +0000

Thanks Catherine for this comment. I’m pretty sure you are right as she brings up a lot of digested milk and cries when this happens so surely is/was acidic gastric juices causing her discomfort.

I thought I’d try cranial osteopathy first as can allegedly help with reflux and I couldn’t see me using Gaviscon before every feed (as she is 100% breastfed I couldn’t just mix it in with the formula as you can with bottle fed babes). Thankfully the c.o. treatment seems to have worked (or has coincided with her stomach valve working better). Strangely she is still bringing us a fair bit of digested milk but no longer is upset by it….

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:15:39 +0000

The symptoms also sound exactly like reflux. I tried a cranial osteopath for my second child after 8 weeks of listening to heartbreaking screaming and it made only a little bit of difference. But after 13 weeks of letting her sleep in the sling for all her daytime naps someone suggested I should try Gaviscon or Carobel and the overnight change was amazing. I think reflux is often undiagnosed unless the baby brings something up and parents find the symptoms disappear when the baby is on more solid food which stays down better.

By: DG

DG — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:28:44 +0000

That’s great news! I’ll bet you’re all far happier now!

Kat did momentarily think of taking Rowan to an osteopath when she didn’t think he was latching on correctly – but in the end it was more of a “train mum and the baby issue”.

By: Sharron

Sharron — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:28:03 +0000

I wish i had heard of that when my youngest now 7experienced similar symptoms all of which subsided once he began a solid diet at 6 months

Pleased you are now getting som respite but with twins and a baby i doubt you get much anyway

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