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Osteopathy for your Pregnancy, Birth, and Baby

Osteopathic Treatment for Newborns

by Dr. Mary Anne Morelli Haskell, DO, FACOP

Birth is a wonderful dance between baby and mom as the baby’s head slowly molds to mom’s pelvis for safe passage. The baby’s head is made to overlap so it can become as small as possible during delivery. The first breath and nursing at the breast are the ways nature designed the baby’s head to resume its shape. If there has been a very quick or very long birth, a baby who is large in relation to mom’s pelvis, a multiple birth, or any other cause of birth trauma, an osteopathic treatment can be of great benefit to the baby (and mom)!