Every parent knows we don’t hold infants by their head once they’re out of the womb. What a lot of parents don’t realize, is that very first contact by a human hand, forceps or suction device with that same type of force, that distraction force on this little one’s neck and it could have been you too. You could still be carrying this type of a stress and this type of trauma with you throughout your life if it hasn’t been addressed. In this episode I’m going to tie in how that type of physical stress onto a newborn during the birth process can lead to what we call subluxation and nerve interference which can take away from that little one’s quality of life and possibly be causing some of these symptoms and conditions that nobody else seems to have an answer for.
The SUBLUXATION Cycle
Before we get started, though, if you haven’t seen the original video of the subluxation cycle, please make sure you to check that out. That’s going to give a more in-depth explanation of what this is.
Birth Trauma
To start off with, this is a physical stress. It’s not so much an emotional or chemical stress that we’re talking about today, it’s a physical stress. And when that little one has that twisting or distraction force on their upper cervical neck, that can disrupt, can inflame, can do a lot of damage to the spinal cord. Now, the spinal cord is what’s responsible for sending messages from the brain to the rest of the body and then receiving information from the rest of the body back to the brain. So bad information, bad decision making, bad output, we get a very disrupted state of health and that’s what we’re talking about here.
Nerve Interference
When the nervous system gets overwhelmed to the point where nerve interference is created, what results in that little one is a disease or imbalanced function state. Now, these little ones, they can’t talk to us; they can’t tell us what’s going on, so often we see that manifest as irritable bowel syndrome, colic or possibly chronic infections leading all the way to the ear infections that are so prevalent in some kids but not prevalent in others. In general, kids have more horizontal Eustachian tubes and more likelihood of an infection because of that. There’s got to be a better explanation for why that is…more on that later. Essentially, what happens here with that physical stress, if it was enough to overwhelm your little one’s nervous system, they are going to be carrying nerve interference throughout their whole life.
How Does That Manifest?
It can vary and it can basically be any sort of dysfunction. If that little one is set off with a decreased stress response, it’s going to predispose them to have a poor reaction to the other things coming at them later in life. There’s going to be more physical stress, more chemical stress, and more emotional stress the longer as life continues. For example, some kids have allergies to peanuts, soy, gluten, dairy, things like that, and some kids don’t. What we find in our practice is a lot of times the ones with the most severe allergies have a common thread of a significant physical trauma during the birth process. So that little one was set off with nerve interference to their immune system and possibly digestive system. That makes it more likely for them to have a poor response to the peanuts, the gluten, the soy that some kids don’t have. Another example, sometimes the vaccine reactions or other toxins, pesticides, things like that, medication reactions, all of that can come from, and often does start from a significant amount of birth trauma.
What Needs To Be Done?
We need to check our little ones and make sure that there is not that disconnect right out of the gate. Not to mention how that can manifest with the scoliosis and the misalignment in their spine as they start to grow, as they start to pick their head up. There’s a lot going on here and we all we want as parents is the best for our little ones.
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We don’t know if we carry this with us! That interference in your brain isn’t able to overcome and heal from that trauma you carry with you and have possibly carried with you your whole life. This can lead to a decreased stress response to this day, decreased health and ultimately quality of life. We want the best for you. We want the best for our kids. Please reach out. And if we can do anything to help you, we’d love to serve you.