Just a reminder that the third talk (of four) in Dr Neil's unmissable series Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well, will be next Thursday the 26th February at 6pm at St Lukes School
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Friday, 13 February 2009
Difficulty breast feeding
Sorry if this is too much information for some but it’s an important issue I want to raise! I spent last weekend and the early part of this week with increasing soreness when feeding Amber. Over the course of two days it got worse as I was extremely tender and I was becoming more and more lop-sided (Mums you know what I mean). It looked like it was going to develop into a nasty case of mastitis and I was trying to figure out what was going on in my life to cause my body create this congestion and inflammation all of a sudden.
Anyway, by Wednesday I was getting pretty desperate it was really rather painful and I spent a lot of the day trying to encourage Amber to feed on that side to try to relieve some of the fullness (even though I was having to grit my teeth each time she latched on). It was whilst Amber was feeding and fidgeting and pulling away and really not looking relaxed at all it twigged, I thought to myself – ‘it’s not my problem – it’s yours!. I couldn’t believe it had taken me days to figure it out as it’s the kind of thing I tell Mums to look out for every day. As soon as Steve got home from work I checked Amber and sure enough she had a right cranial subluxation. Five minutes later I had adjusted her and she was feeding on the left side no problem at all and by the time she had finished I no longer had any pain or tenderness.
So it wasn’t my problem it was Amber’s, and given the number of times she has fallen and bumped her head in the last week as she is learning to walk it’s no wonder she had a cranial subluxation!
So the moral of the story is – if you know a breastfeeding mum who is struggling to get her baby to latch on or is suffering from soreness or even mastitis they should both really come down and get their spine and nervous systems checked for subluxations as soon as possible. If movement of the neck is impaired or there is interference to the nerve supply of the tongue and muscles of the face breast feeding is going to be difficult and uncomfortable for the child. I just can’t believe it took me days to figure it out.
Rachael
P.s. all babies and children are entitled to a complementary consultation
Anyway, by Wednesday I was getting pretty desperate it was really rather painful and I spent a lot of the day trying to encourage Amber to feed on that side to try to relieve some of the fullness (even though I was having to grit my teeth each time she latched on). It was whilst Amber was feeding and fidgeting and pulling away and really not looking relaxed at all it twigged, I thought to myself – ‘it’s not my problem – it’s yours!. I couldn’t believe it had taken me days to figure it out as it’s the kind of thing I tell Mums to look out for every day. As soon as Steve got home from work I checked Amber and sure enough she had a right cranial subluxation. Five minutes later I had adjusted her and she was feeding on the left side no problem at all and by the time she had finished I no longer had any pain or tenderness.
So it wasn’t my problem it was Amber’s, and given the number of times she has fallen and bumped her head in the last week as she is learning to walk it’s no wonder she had a cranial subluxation!
So the moral of the story is – if you know a breastfeeding mum who is struggling to get her baby to latch on or is suffering from soreness or even mastitis they should both really come down and get their spine and nervous systems checked for subluxations as soon as possible. If movement of the neck is impaired or there is interference to the nerve supply of the tongue and muscles of the face breast feeding is going to be difficult and uncomfortable for the child. I just can’t believe it took me days to figure it out.
Rachael
P.s. all babies and children are entitled to a complementary consultation
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