How can you tell if your child is experiencing nervous system interference?

Before your child even comes into this world, some of the keys to healthy development depend upon mom’s health.  This includes proper nutrition (check out www.blueribbonbaby.com), exercise and stress management.  However, even with all of the right things in place, a newborn can still experience stress from the trauma of birth. 

The pulling and twisting forces on the neck of a baby are significant and very common in the United States.  It’s been estimated that up to 1 in 7 births end in Cesarean section and many more than that involve the use of forceps and vacuum extraction.  Even so-called “natural” birthing methods can cause stress and result in subluxations.  Subluxations are areas of the spine that interfere with, or distort the messages that must travel between the brain cells and body tissue cells.  Subluxations can compromise health and development right from the start and other problems can appear years down the road.