When is Craniosacral Therapy helpful for Infants?
Craniosacral therapy is a super-light touch cranial therapy that tracks the slow pulse of cerebrospinal fluid. Because an infant’s cranial bones have not yet fused (the fonatanelle is soft until the age of one) and the skull is still quite malleable, craniosacral therapy can organize the bones of the skull, remove “kinks” from the dura (the strong tissue that encases the central nervous system) and release stress from the soft tissues. Many complaints of babies – colic, constipation, not sleeping, difficult nursing, spitting up, mysterious crying or crankiness (often babies and young children have headaches they don’t know how to tell you about) – can all have a structural basis. For instance, an obstructed vagus nerve (a nerve that “wanders” from the brainstem all the way to the abdomen) can account for many of these conditions. Gently releasing the obstruction (like unkinking a garden hose) through craniosacral therapy can sometimes produce magical results. Some births are more diffi
