Helping Babies to Heal

EARLY PATTERNING

Shock and trauma from conception, early development, birth and infancy,  can be the cause of emotional and physical distress and the source of later illness. picture of hands holding babyDifficulties with feeding, breathing, colic, sleep, hypersensitivity, excessive crying, lack of responsiveness, panic and rage can all be symptomatic of trauma in babies. Without appropriate treatment, early patterning can affect a child for life.

HOLISTIC TREATMENTS for BABIES

Craniosacral Therapy and Homeopathy are both gentle, supportive, deeply healing treatments, which are very effective in preventing and resolving early difficulties. These two therapies also work well together.
Among the many other holistic treatments available, Developmental Movement Repatterning, Butterfly Touch, Metamorphic Technique, Infant Massage, Birth Games, Shiatsu and Flower Essences are also particularly useful.

BORN SURVIVOR

Wrenched
wrung out
aching
exhausted
I am here
in body and in pain

from soft warmth
from enveloping connectedness
from flowing beingness
continuous with all that is
through the storm of birth
to the sudden shock
the harsh strangeness
of an unknown shore
washed up
like a tiny beached whale
stranded
alone
a cry comes
a cry from my soul
a cry of pain
of grief
of rage
of loss
of longing

it is lost in the clatter and bustle
of a hostile world

I curl up
into a still small place
tight
resistant
resolute
defiant
a born survivor

Lesley Downie
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Links and References		 Craniosacral Therapy
Infant Trauma
Understanding Early Difficulties
Butterfly Touch
Birth Games
Baby Stories
The Importance of Touch
Movement Repatterning
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