"As a parent, a Monteessori teacher and a recent postpartum care provider, I have spent the past thirty years observing infants and children. We know more now than ever before about child development and information is readily available to parents and caregivers alike.
We wait for milestones to be met; doing everything we can to help our children get there. Still we find ourselves with newborns that can't latch, babies with reflux, toddlers with chronic ear infections, preschoolers who fall a lot and elementary aged children with unexplained respiratory issues. We lovingly study our babies and we know we are seeing that something is off, but we can't quite put our finger on it. The list of childhood concerns is endless and as it grows, parents and caregivers look for help from outside expert sources. These resources are a gift, but they often take us farther away from the root of our children's struggles. That being their own physical bodies.
The human body is the foundation block for all social, emotikonal, physical and cognitive development. If this foundation has a crack, it can impact the trajectory of a child's growth. In the hands of a pediatric chiropractor, infants and children are evaluated and adjusted for the slightest subluxations that may hinder a child's optimal development. The birth process itself can be a lot for a little person to endure no matter how natural or peaceful.
As newborns, my three children we all seen by a chiropractor before their one week pediatric MD visit, continuing throughout their childhood and teenage years. I am a mediocre mother at best, yet my children never had an ear infection, strep or respiratory concerns. Two of them suffered serious concussions playing sports that were managed with chiropractic care. Allergies were treated, unmedicated fevers came down, significant vision issues were reduced. My children are not different from most; they rode bikes, went to school and got sick. Our first choice was always chiropractic for preventive, restorative and trauma care when it came to our children's health. It's a practice that is built on observation, knowledgeable evaluation, and gentle correction, as it supports the body's innate desire to heal itself.
I wss recently introduced to the book "It's All in the Head'' by Drs Martin Rosen and Nancy Watson, two parents and pediatric chiropractors with over 80 years of combined clinical and teaching experience. I have to say this book is a must for any parent, or healthcare professional that works with children. While I was exposed to the benefits of pediatric chiropractic care when my children were still infants, many others are not. This book answers so many questions, gives a window into the normal guidelines of pediatric development and gives the reader a better understanding of the infant's growth and development as well as helping to recognize aberrant neurological patterns before they become actual diagnosed disease processes or worse, they become set in the child's developmental, learning and social behavior patterns.
Now there is a course, based on this book, for anyone who works with or has children. This will be a great support, as well as offer guideposts, to address some of the early childhood issues that many parents and healthcare professionals face. I highly recommend learning and sharing this information."
- Dawn Gunn-Brown
