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Arching Baby Baby Day OneThe first day of taking our new students into the treatment environment was thrilling and a tad hectic. We walked them through calculating Brain Score, guided them through general unwinding and finding and following strain patterns. Moms were well prepared by the EstrellaGiua staff who did an amazing job finding, scheduling, and organizing the families for the sessions.

Pictures are coming.

The third day of the Baby Clinic brings with it a new layer of the onion.  Most of the babies have begun to detox, an important phase of the healing process.   While detox is good news for the therapeutic team, the moms are looking forward to a quiet night’s sleep soon.  Now that the students are on their 6th day of immersion training, the teachers have switched focus temporarily to educate the moms about the fascial healing process, the importance of follow up therapy and how to release strain gently at home after each vaccination.

After the Baby Clinic concluded, it was on to phase two of the day:  baby Maria, the asthma children and some new guests as well.  Estrellaguia invited a neuro surgeon to the seminar that has worked on one of their clients.  Unable to attend the entire program, she came to observe the Baby Clinic and consult with Dr. Barry about two of her patients with cranial stenosis.  They arrived with us on day three and were treated by members of the team and some of the students.  Their releases were intense and active unwindings which was a challenge for the moms to observe even though their brain surgeon was there in support of the treatment method.  We are hopeful that they will both continue with therapy while we are here and with the students after we have returned home.   The other children have now had several sessions and are doing better and better each day.

The final phase of the day was the visit to the maternity ward at the local hospital. Hospital Materno-Infantil de Culican, Sinoloa is the oldest public hospital in Culiacan.  The “halls” are out doors with lovely archways leading to a courtyard.  Patients line the benches in the beautiful Mexican sunlight as they wait for their appointments.  We walked through with wide eyes, having no idea what we would find.  Our greatest hope was that we might get the chance to see Dr. Barry and our OB/GYN physician escort treat one or two babies a day or so old in rooms with two moms each.  What we found was a two sided maternity ward with rustic charm and soaring ceilings, 4-6 beds on each side of the room.  To our surprise, several of the moms approved of us working with their babies, at least initially!  The doctors took on the first newborn, inviting the rest of us to work 2 at a time after that each time a mother agreed.  Several children would not latch, some had distorted head shapes, one had strider breathing.  All were less than 24 hours old. 

The work on such small onions was truly amazing.  We checked Brain Scores, the highest was a 4.  At such an early age, there was little crying and only gentle unwinding.  One baby with that was unable to latch had a distorted head shape and severely crossed eyes had the most difficulty with treatment.  Mom asked us to stop so we told her that if she changed her mind someone would be back.  Before we left that day, all of the babies latched.  A visiting grandmother was moved to tears as she watched her new grandchild nurse for the first time.  The next morning, our OB/GYN escort went back to check on the status of our little clients to find that all were much improved, still nursing and the once reticent mother was excited and asking for more treatment as her son’s head was a nearly perfect shape, eyes uncrossed and he continued to nurse like a champ!

Could life get any better than this?

Baby Day 2 ChristineBaby Day 2 MikeBaby Day 2 KrissyDay 2 has been incredible. Most of the returning parents have reports of significant improvement in their children. Some are experiencing predictable detox which involves mild exacerbation of symptoms. Of these, some have been fussy at night or spitting up a little more than usual. Most have seen negative symptoms begin to fade and positive changes develop.

One of the children that was in for the first time today was born at 6 months gestation. He was on a ventilator in neonatal intensive care for a very long time. Today, his upper palate still holds the shape and strain of  the ventilator tube that helped him stay alive.  As a result, he has a very difficult time with the suck/swallow reflex, as well as an extremely tight cranio-sacral system.  This precious child is one example of why the Brain Score was devloped.  Had he been treated at birth, there is no telling to what degree things could be different for him today.  Now that he is here, we feel certain his life will get easier.

We did actually have a perfect baby today. A credit to the accuracy of the brain score to predict the level of difficulty a child will have, the child came in the door with a 150 second cranial cycle, was in perfect syncronization between cranium and sacrum, and had absolutely no issues…no colic, reflux, sleep problems, fussiness…..NOTHING. His brain score was the highest possible, 8. Perfect Brain Score = perfect function!

In the ‘after hours’ we are still following up with the asthma children and the little girl with club foot (Maria H). Every one of the asthma kids has had a dramatic change in either breathing, behavior or both after about 5 sessions. Little Maria H, though we really make her mad when we work on her, slept 12 straight hours last night…the first time that has ever happenend in her 3 1/2 yrs of life. Her feet and legs are visibly more relaxed and Mom and Dad are hoping we will stay for another year!

The students are doing an amazing job.  Their professional experience with newborns (most are OB?GYN, pediatricans, neo-natoologists) has been a tremendous benefit to the entire project.  The moms that are coming in are comforted by the presence of the physician students, even when their babies are crying and flipping upside down in the air. 

The most exciting piece of news from today’s session is that the doctor who originally invited us to come and teach Barry’s work here has asked us to come in to the local public hospital nursery Thursday, Friday and Saturday to work with the newborns….the babies that, as of this posting, have yet to be born.  Only in the private hospitals here do new moms have the luxury of a several-day stay post-partum.  We may even be there during a birth or two. 

The true mission of this trip is not just to teach this amazing work around the globe and gain clinical data on how it helps prevent common structural conditions in children previously only treated with medication or surgery.  It is to introduce to the world the concept of the Brain Score, an evaluation tool which can determine the function of the central nervous system at birth.  Ideally, the Brain Score would be calculated as soon after birth as possible.  As of yet, no one who knows how to do the Brain Score has been invited into the hospital setting.  Come Thursday, the four of us may have this opportunity after the 60+ kids, 5 asthma children and a few others.

There is too much exhiliration to be tired.