Christine Dierick, D.O.

The strain of birth but also the baby’s position during pregnancy can contribute to tension and blockages in the baby’s body. Although possibly minute or even invisible to the parents, they can trigger traumas or even worsen or become chronic over time. Following the birth, a preventive visit to an osteopath can go a long way to putting parents at ease and rebalancing anything that was disturbed during delivery. For babies, osteopathy is a gentle and painless manual therapy that promotes balanced development.

According to the College of Family Physicians of Canada, more than 75% of children will have at least one ear infection before the age of three, and close to half will have at least three.
Osteopaths cannot cure ear infections. However, they can promote and accelerate the healing process and break the vicious cycle of recurrent ear infections.

Regurgitation, gastric reflux, difficulty sucking—these feeding problems common to newborns are often related to excessive compression on the digestive system. An osteopath can relieve the newborn’s symptoms and calm the parents’ nerves by detecting and eliminating the cause.