Archive for the ‘Colic Therapies’ Category
Food Allergies, Colic and Probiotics
We have experienced many changes to our food supply over the last couple of decades. As a result, allergic food reactions are increasing in developed countries. These changes can have an effect on your baby and can be the cause of the colic.
Shiatsu Massage to Help You Deal With Colic
When dealing with colic, it is important to remember to take care of yourself, as well as your wife, husband or significant other. One thing that you can do is to give each other a quick shoulder massage. This provides a lot of relief without much effort. Often, when people are under a lot of stress, that stress tends to end up in the shoulders and neck. Especially when you are stressed and carrying and increasingly heavy baby.
Breastfeeding Success and Craniosacral Therapy
There are many, many reasons to breastfeed your baby. One of them is that babies who are breastfed tend to have less reflux than bottle fed babies. If a breastfed baby does have reflux, his or her symptoms will often worsen on formula.
Does acupuncture help with a colicky baby?
Your baby is crying constantly, keeping you up all night. You’ve tried everything. What about acupuncture? Does it really work? My baby is already in enough pain; how will putting pins in her help?
Acupuncture is a respected and proven form of medical treatment that has been practiced in Asia for over 2000 years. Many parents have turned to acupuncture for relief of colic.
Is acupuncture the colic cure you’ve been hoping for? Unfortunately, like most of the treatments for colic, the answer is — maybe.
Needle-free Pediatric Acupuncture, or Shonishin
Shonishin (sho=little, ni=children, shin=needle) is a specialized form of treatment for infants and children that was developed in Japan over 400 years ago. These days, Japanese parents regularly take their children in for treatment, and shonishin’s worldwide popularity is increasing. It carries the benefits of acupuncture without the use of needles. Children find the treatments relaxing and even pleasurable.
As parents of an infant with colic, we found the book extremely helpful. The information helped us to determine the causes of our daughter's colic and how we could find the most effective relief for her.The advice we received gave us many strategies to comfort pain and prevent colic symptoms. We highly recommend this book in dealing with colic first hand.
Jessi P., Michigan
We were able to specifically determine which methods would help to ease our daughter’s colic by using the techniques in the book. From a definition of colic, to first steps of response, and finally to more detailed and extensive treatments. Research-based methods, statistics regarding colic remedies, and specific resources are provided to parents in need. This book will be a blessing for you and your baby as you use one of the many methods described to soothe your infant. Tim M., Michigan
"Colic Remedies Guidebook is great! And I wish it had been available when Keilor was born. His colic nearly made me crazy--literally This is GREAT work AND VERY HELPFUL!"
K. Zarley, R.N., Michigan