WHY EVERY BABY DESERVES TO BE CHECKED BY A CHIROPRACTOR
We don’t say these words lightly. We truly believe that every baby deserves to get their nervous system assessed and supported by a chiropractor.
We sincerely hope that every mom has the pregnancy and delivery of their dreams. Even if both your pregnancy and delivery were everything you hoped it would be, your baby still needs to see a chiropractor.
Birth is a BIG thing. For both mom and baby.
There’s a few reasons why every baby should be checked by a chiropractor...
SPACE IN UTERO
A woman’s uterus grows from the size of an orange to the size of a watermelon during pregnancy!
It grows alongside your baby, the most growth of the uterus happening in the late first to middle second trimester.
Even with all that growth, babies are still confined to a small space and can be in funky positions for extended periods of time. You feel it and your baby feels it!
These positions can lead to muscle tightness on one side of their bodies and misalignments in their spine.
If there are misalignments in mom’s pelvis or increased tension in her muscles and ligaments, that can increase intrauterine constriction (i.e. tension impacting baby’s ability to move) which can result in baby not being able to get in the proper position for birth.
DELIVERY
Then when it comes time for the baby to be delivered, the uterus starts contracting and the baby coordinates with mom throughout labor to corkscrew and come out of the birth canal.
While this is a natural process and something that we want, it still causes increased tension and trauma on the baby’s body. Stretching, pressing, squeezing.
And if increased interventions are used (forceps, vacuum, c-section) these can also cause trauma through increased force and unnatural movements.
It is extremely common for babies to experience their first subluxation and nervous system disruption during birth.
In fact, of all the hundreds of babies that we have seen, every single one had at least one misalignment in their spine.
ADJUSTING TO A NEW ENVIRONMENT
Now that baby has been delivered, they are continuing to adjust to a variety of changes.
They are now needing to feed, breathe, regulate their temperature on their own rather than mom doing it for them via the umbilical cord and uterus.
All of those changes and the massive change in environment result in changes to their nervous system.
They are learning to regulate their nervous system on their own.
Anytime their body perceives a threat (hunger, digestion problems, lack of sleep, tension in their bodies, misalignments of their spine, etc.) their nervous system stays stuck in their fight-or-flight response.
Chiropractic adjustments help reset and calm that nervous system.
These reasons just scratch the surface at all the reasons why every baby should be seen by a chiropractor.
We have done extensive extra training to take the best possible care of babies and moderate all of our adjustments to match their size and needs. A typical adjustment of a newborn is with the amount of force you would squeeze an avocado with.