Birth is a stimulating journey but also very stressful, after all it is the first major trauma of our life.

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It would be good practice to take your baby to a pediatric osteopath for a postpartum visit in the first month of life, especially if you have had difficult, hasty (very fast), urgent deliveries or with the help of external measures or drugs.  

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Bringing your child to the osteopath does not mean that he is sick or has something wrong, on the contrary, it is an extra weapon that you offer him which can best adapt to the changes experienced during childbirth and will help him develop to the best of his possibilities. motor and cognitive skills that occur in the first year of life. 

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A very simple example can be that of a long birth, where the child is already in the birth canal and undergoes uterine contractions, these forces go to shape the cranial bones which, as we well know, are very mobile and delicate in children, this can go to affect a whole series of muscle and bone structures of the mouth which will make suction inefficient, therefore a difficult attachment to the breast with all the ensuing consequences; decline in growth, nervousness of the child, fissures of the mother. 

 

So common problems in children such as colic, constipation, reflux, ear infections, plagiocephaly and sleep disorders can be treated effectively with pediatric osteopathy. 

 

The most important steps to be evaluated in the first year of life are: from newborn, to 5/6 months and 9/11 months to prevent future problems, postural problems and allow optimal development of the child.