You do everything to ensure your baby's health during pregnancy: you eat
right, avoid drugs, smoking and drinking, take childbirth classes so you can
have a natural, drug-free birth. After the baby is born, you breastfeed knowing
that is the superior form of nutrition; you do everything you can to make sure
your baby is healthy ---- but have you had the most important part of their
health, their spine and nervous system, checked?
Birth Trauma - The First Subluxation: "The birth process ... is
potentially a traumatic,
crippling event.... mechanical stress imposed by
obstetrical manipulation --- even the application of standard orthodox
procedures may prove intolerable to the fetus. The view has been expressed
clinically that most signs of neonatal injury observed in the delivery room are
neurological...."
Towbin A., Latent spinal cord and brain stem injury in newborn infants. Develop.
Med. Child Neurol., 1969.
"With the birth process becoming more and more an intervening
procedure....the chiropractic checkup becomes even more important to the child's
future." Larry Webster, DC, of the International Chiropractic Pediatric
Association
Traumatic Birth Syndrome
Articles about Chiropractic and Infants
The adjustment for a newborn is as gentle as if you were testing a ripe tomato
in the grocery store.