Do you have a hungry baby?
In the book Calming Colic I have a section on the hungry baby. Often I find that there is a confusing mix between colic, hunger and comfort feeding. This piece of...
Breast milk – It’s amazing properties
Fascinating research showing that breast milk feeds the good bacteria in the newborns gut and on top of that it actually adjusts as the baby gets older and has different...
Midwifery Conference at St Mary’s University, June 2012 by Christian Bates on Colic
In June 2012 I was privileged and honored to speak at St Mary’s University student Midwifery Conference. My presentation was based around my book and research on infantile colic. Colic...
Can colic go beyond 12 weeks? Yes it can!
I am often asked what age colic stops? The NHS answer according to their website is at 12 weeks. I am also often asked if it can go on after...
Probiotics pass into breast milk and then into baby (which can help colic)
This is important research to me in my quest to help colicky babies. It shows that probiotics, an important piece in the puzzle of helping colic, are detectable in a...
Bacteria from mothers gut DOES pass into breast milk
Bacteria from the gut DOES pass into her breast milk! Massive day on the research front for Calming Colic! This study shows that gut bacteria from the mother DOES get passed...
Probiotics help baby reflux
This study is from 2011 so it is not new but I have only just found it so it is new to me. When I have babies in with reflux...
Can the speed of birth determine whether your child has colic?
It interested me to find this piece of research that found that babies born from faster births had more colic. If I had been asked whether a long or faster birth...
How Calming Colic came to be written
This is just a little background on how I ended up writing Calming Colic. I have been treating babies using cranial osteopathy since I first graduated osteopathy college in 1997. I...
How does cranial sacral work?
How does cranial osteopathy work? A short extract from Calming Colic: There are a few principles by which cranial osteopathy works. Basically, the skilled practitioner is able to use gentle palpation to...
Is your baby excessively crying, colicky, in pain and not sleeping?
Whilst the NHS website tells us the ‘causes are unknown’, the truth is that babies get colic for at least 10 reasons. In the book Calming Colic, I explain what those causes are and...
Stress in mother passed to baby
Some of the most "colicky" babies I have seen have very stressed parents. Is the stress because of having a colicky baby or was the stress in the mother before...