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Finally we are back on schedule to Mexico! Leaving March 2nd, home by March 14th. 8 days of teaching, a day or two of relaxing in between. Mike has a Flip vidoe thingy, so we should get it all on “tape”!
This blog is for the sole use of documenting the trip to Mexico, not for direct communication with Dr. Gillespie. To reach him directly, use the following email address: drbarryrg@me.com
If the success of Baby Day in Lancaster with Krissy and Mike are any indication, this trip and the study that will follow will be a meaningful success with major implications for pediatric care going forward. Each week a dozen or so babies get closer to fascial freedom as the Brain Therapy International team goes to work! This past week one of the babies had a feeding issue that caused them to only feed on one side. By the end of the session, Mom reported that the problem was completely gone….in less that 30 minutes of treatment!
No one knows what is to come, but it’s something… Let us know you are following along! We’re gonna be a long way from home!
It is 2 weeks until we leave for Mexico! We are so excited to share this work! We have seen the profound changes in the babies that we have treated in our office in Lancaster Co.. They have all improved and the mothers are happy.
We hope you follow our work while we are down there!
Glad you are back on track. I can’t wait to follow along.
Go team! Buen Suerte!
Vaya Con Dios!
Day 2 is off to a roaring start. Our students are pediatricians, OB/GYN doctors, dulas, ect. There are three translators for Mike, Krissy and I, as well as a simultaneous translator for Barry as he lectures. It looks a bit like the UN with the translator behind glass speaking into the students headphones.
How’s Day 3? Mas informacion por favor!
Hi everyone! We are limited in our access to the internet, but more is coming soon. The first segment of our mission finished on Saturday with great success. One of the physicians that took the seminar referred to the work as “magic”. We will be starting the newborn clinic segment tomorrow where we will be teaching the Brain Score to pediatricians, neo-natologinsts, gynocologists, and neo-natal nurses, then taking those students into a 5 day rapid fire clinic for babies under 4 mos of age.
We will be in teams of 5,each of the teachers with 4 students. Tomorrow we will treat 50 babies, the next days we will be aprox. 60 babies each day. Because the foundation we are working with helps so many children, there are many in need that are older than the cut off age for the clinic. After we finish with the scheduled children we have several others to get to with issues ranging from asthma, to club foot and pectis excavatum (check my spelling on that one, aka known as funnel chest).
this has been a life changing journey already, and the most powerful and demanding phase is yet to come. Keep checking in!
The BTI team
First day of baby clinic today. 4 teachers, each with 4-5 students, 8 babies per hour from 8:30 to 5pm. After the clinic wrapped up, we followed up with the asthma and foundation children we treated in the first few days of our visit.
Krissy, Mike and Christine (me!)spent half of the lunch break following up with the little girl with club foot that was pictured in one of the first posts. Videos abound, but we have not been able reduce their size enough to put them on the blog yet. My kingdom for a IT expert right now.
The students are doing an amazing job. Their professional experience with newborns has been a tremendous benefit to the entire project. The moms that are coming in are comforted by the presence of the pediatrician 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.
How exciting! Keep up the great work
Thanks for keeping us posted!
Thanks for checking in! We are exhausted, but the results are so dramatic we just keep going. We teachers just led our last clinic session. Tomorrow will just be Barry overseeing the 5th treatment session by himself. He gave us the day off, but we will come in anyway and see some of the other kids that are not in the ‘program’. There will also be a graduation, certificates, etc.
We got in to the hospital yesterday. unreal. we treated several babies just hours old. look for the update. truely amazing. I have been in tears several times since yesterday afternoon. On our way to a different hospital today. See you soon!