Does your colicky baby have lots of hiccups?
Anatomically, the nerve to the diaphragm comes from the neck. If this nerve is irritated then it can cause the diaphragm to spasm more easily producing hiccups! This is an...
Dealing with colic? The least talked about cause
In this video I talk about a cause of colic that I rate as one of the most common causes I see daily, yet I have NEVER seen it mentioned...
Colic and migraine linked
Research has shown that migraine in older children can be linked to them having colic when they were babies. I have a bit of a slant in my thinking on...
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 osteopathy 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...
