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Understanding your baby digestive system, colic, reflux and birth trauma
Just to understand your baby food and why some babies will have more colic till 3 months old than others.
The foremilk, is the milk that comes out first, when you breastfeeding. Is that milk that contains water, protein and antibodies.
The hindmilk is thicker and contains fat, vitamin A, E and more fat soluble vitamins. They both contain lactose.
Lactose overload is when the baby does not have enough of the lactase (the enzyme to break down the sugar).
Lactase is produced from the brush border of their small intestinal tract from two weeks onwards. In premature babies it might take longer than full term baby to produce enough lactase to digest the sugar.
If the mother naturally has more lactose in the milk than the baby can digest, or there the baby drinks more of the foremilk than the hindmilk and keep feeding all the time without rest, than lactose can accumulate in the large intestine. This will cause, fermentation and air and bloating. Being very uncomfortable for the baby when it needs to poo and the poo being very explosive. Even though I have seen also babies with an accumulated lactose that were constipated, this might be combined with structure problems, that craniosacral therapy can deal with.
Breastmilk is empties faster from the stomach than bottle milk, hence babies that are bottle fed sleep a bit longer due to the fat content and feeling full quicker.
Bile salts, digest fat, and in breastmilk helps with the digestion of fat and infants do re-absorb the bile from the blood to digest milk as well. This is till the digestive system and liver system develops better.
Oligosaccharides in the mothers milk increase the friendly bacteria growth in babies. The bacteria helps digest the food even further, help to make food for the intestinal tract cells production and the production of some B vitamins and vitamin K.
If your baby drinks more foremilk than hindmilk, the fat content of their feeding will be out of balance. Fatty substances are slow to digest. As the foremilk is usually lower in fat, it passes so fast through the intestinal tract that it does not get enough time to break down and triggers colic by accumulating in the large intestine and cause the gas, and bloating and discomfort in your baby.
Sign and symptoms of foremilk and hindmilk intake imbalance are:
Significate weight gain, fussiness, with feedings, gas, frequent stools that sometimes are green, frothy and explosive stools. Always hungry, crying and screaming, more appetite than usual trouble sleeping.
Allow babies to finish one breastmilk before going to the other side. See a lactation consultant if in doubt.
Craniosacral therapy and nutrition gives the baby and parents a gift of a lifetime in adjusting the entire system through letting go of possible birth trauma, or in pregnancy trauma, stress hormones and more. Tight jaw, after a tongue tie, or high palate and tight jaw due to forces of the birth trauma during delivery and much more. Reduces and eliminates colic, reflux, constipation, sleep problems.
Maria Esposito BSc (Hons)
Babies and mothers craniosacral therapy sessions
From reflux, during pregnancy, to tiredness and relaxions for anxious mothers to babies and mothers birth trauma, Craniosacral therapy is a gentle but very powerful and magical therapy that allows the entire body system to settle and balance up. This will reduce, anxiety for the mother, and stress mode, or vagal irritation for the baby when they are born. In turn for the baby means, less colic, less irritation or fear mode, less reflux, improved breastfeeding, more peaceful sleep for baby and mother. craniosacral therapy is a gift of a lifetime for your baby, as it will improve the mother and baby connection, a HAPPY BABY, will increase the good positive neurons forming and good memory that will positively affect them for their lifetime!
For babies with a small amount of birth trauma just few sessions is enough to settle them in a balance way. This improve the connection after a tongue tie for a good latching and hence feeding well.
For the past 30 years, I have heard of mothers saying that their baby do not poo for few days or even a week or more at the time, and they have been told that it is normal.
After just one session and suggestions of babies infants probiotics, babies poo few times a day, as they should do.
The foundation of good bacteria from the start of the baby’s life, will set them for a lifetime of good intestinal tract. There are plenty of research now connecting the gut health with the brain healthy development of the baby in their adult time.
The past 50 years with the use of too much anti-biotics, which at times, they do save lives, but others were prescribed as sweet, have seen the stripping of the good bacteria, with an increase in gut dysbiosis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and other Irritable Bowel disorders. Now that we have learned how important our friendly gut bacteria are from the start, let’s keep them in and start from the beginning!
Give yourself and your baby the gift of life, with craniosacral therapy. For the mothers and adults, the change is a bit more slow, but worth starting and carrying on!
© Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) R-Nutritional Therapist – NAET for allergies – R-Craniosacral Therapist – NLP – Angel Guide Certified – Mindfulness Meditation teacher- Heart Meditation certificated (Heart-Math)
Craniosacral Healing /Nutrition NAET/Mindfulness living/ NlP health coach /mind body and soul 