There just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day so you may find yourself giving yourself the short end of the sleeping stick. But it’s just as important for parents to get restful sleep as it is for babies and kids so these 3 tips are going to help you avoid feeling overwhelmed and allow you to juggle all of those things (and more).

So many times we have heard, “Babies don’t have back pain” and, “Kids don’t get frozen shoulder” and the ever popular, “How do you crack a baby’s neck?!” While all of these conditions may be what chiropractors are known for, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Because baby and mom are connected, fetal distress gets relayed back to mom which alarms her nervous system that something is wrong which in turn puts more stress back on mom.

As we enter into any winter holiday season there seems to be four things that our kids and families experience that tend to collide all at once and result in stressed kids and families! This causes our kids, ourselves, and our nervous systems to get completely overwhelmed and stressed out. When we get worn out, we get sick, anxious, emotional, and worn down.

In order to help our kids heal, and to get this generation of babies back on track to good, natural, neurologically-focused health and well-being… these 4️⃣ building blocks are absolutely essential. 

The truth is, getting a child’s brain and body to heal is both a complicated and simple process. It’s complicated not just because the brain and central nervous system are such a vast, intricate, detailed system… but mainly because in today’s world, there are millions of options on how to get the job done.

Frustratingly the most common advice parents are given still today is to let them cry it out, and also, “Don’t worry, they’ll grow out of it.” But as Pediatric Chiropractors, our entire obsession is with finding the cause of a child’s health condition, so that we can then know with certainty the best plan moving forward to help them heal and overcome it.

The number one most important thing in the health of our children and family is not how much stress or toxicity they are exposed to, but instead how adaptable and resilient they are to these stresses.

You’ve gone the medical route. You’ve likely circled through it three times over, having seen every specialist, geneticist, neurologist, and gastroenterologist within 500 miles of your home. You’ve tried medication after medication.

Kids are always going through some level of growth; learning how to regulate their emotions, exercising and nourishing their bodies, adjusting to new routines with friends and school, etc. Not only is sleep essential for their physical, mental, and emotional development, but without it, children don’t have a sense of normalcy.

The mother’s nervous system, which processes all her mental, emotional, and physical experiences including stress, provides a baseline resonance frequency for the child to connect with throughout their development. The growing nervous system imitates and bonds to the mother’s nervous system which helps to guide its future growth.

The autonomic nervous system controls and modulates every single cell, tissue, and organ in the body. Therefore when dysautonomia takes root, it can cause a multitude of symptoms and various health conditions.