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Page 16 | Abby's Magazine | instagram.com/abbyshealthfood Why in the world would a child need chiropractic care? Why would a baby need chiropractic care? Babies don't have neck or back pain so why would they need to go to a chiropractor? What if I told you that babies need chiropractic care the most! The birth process for many is extremely traumatic. 32% of live births in the US are delivered by Cesarean section, 0.5% are delivered by forceps, and 2.5% by vacuum extraction. Therefore, the rest of births are transvaginal, and although this is the best way for the baby to be delivered, it can also be very traumatic. When you begin the pushing process, through a vaginal delivery the doctor in most cases will help the mom but pulling on the baby's neck for the baby to easily get through the vaginal canal. Through the tugging of the baby's head and neck comes misalignments of the vertebral bones of the baby's neck and cranial bones that are not fully sutured together yet. This can also happen with forceps, vacuum, and a C-section, and if anything, these can contribute to an even more traumatic birth for the baby. When you are born with the misalignment of the vertebrae in the neck for example, there then comes a domino effect down the rest of your spine. Babies don't have sutured cranial bones, so the bones that involve their skull are not sutured together yet, which makes for the baby to have a very delicate head. You tend to see more cranial bones shifted with the tugging at the head and neck during delivery which causes the baby to develop areas of the skull that are unbalanced. Between our skull and our brain, we have a fluid called cerebrospinal fluid that is there to protect the brain and spinal cord, but also must go through a steady flowing system. If there are areas of unbalance or areas where the cerebrospinal fluid has not been able to drain, this can create a buildup of toxic waste in different areas of the brain. A study done by Mark Derewicz with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows the correlation with increased infant brain fluid (cerebrospinal fluid) to autism. Your CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) should be replenished with fresh CSF four times a day in babies and adults, since it is filtered out with inflammatory proteins from the brain. Therefore, if there is increased fluid in infants in certain areas this can mess up the cell communication in the brain, leading to the causes of different diseases. Your vertebrae run alongside your spinal cord; they are the structures that protect your spinal cord from trauma for example. Therefore, misalignment of the vertebra from birth trauma can then lead to unbalanced cranial bones, misaligned vertebrae, and potentially leading to sickness. For example, when you have a baby that is colic, they may then develop into having delayed milestones, to then getting diagnosed with ADD or autism, to then growing up as a teenager with anxiety. This is just an example of how you don't grow out of these imbalances, you grow into them. With chiropractic care, getting a baby adjusted from the moment they are born is allowing their nervous system (brain and spinal cord) to adjust accordingly to be able to adapt to life the way their body was designed to do so. Chiropractors deliver a very gentle adjustment for babies, and they immediately respond. It is important to allow their little Children and Chiropractic By Dr. Dan Durrieu and Alexandra Durrieu