Osteopath experiences?

Has anyone taken their little one to an Osteopath? We had our first visit today after noticing our little girl was getting increasingly uncomfortable. Pic for attention, very chilled after her first session!

She’s 7 weeks, born via forceps, and has discomfort with her stomach/gas/irregular pooping, a favoured side for feeding and was looking like her neck movements were uncomfortable.
First visit has gone well and she seems more settled, her neck better elongated/less scrunched up body overall, and feeding better on her non-favoured side. Still to see any change in gas/pooping! The osteopath knew exactly where tension was (which matched my thoughts over the last few weeks) and explained to me how everything interconnects to cause different issues.

We have a follow up on Monday as have been told adjustments may take 2-3 days to settle, but my question is if anyone has been, have they found effects last, and how many visits were needed for that?
I’m really glad we have taken her but I don’t think we can afford to go too many more times because of maternity pay…

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I went to one! It was recommended to us by a lactation consultant. My baby wasn’t latching properly due to being stiff in the neck and not opening her mouth wide enough after being back to back in labour so head curled under when born, and a fast labour.
I noticed a big difference after just 1 session but I did go back for a second one a month later and the osteopath could still find things to correct but minor. May not have been worth the second visit but I wanted to just in case if affected her development in crawling/sitting etc with being uncomfortable. The corrections seem to have lasted well and we’re 3-4 months on now

We took our little boy at about 8/9 weeks as we were so at the end of our rope with literally no sleep all night for weeks as he was in so much pain and uncomfortable. We had 1 session and came away with some exercises to do 3 times a day and we noticed an improvement almost straight away and since then he goes straight to sleep most nights and it’s generally more content. He’s 3 and a half months now. For us it was well worth it

For anyone who finds this when searching, my little girl had 3 appointments and it was a game changer for us ☺️
If after research you think it might be helpful for your LO, I would recommend!

thank you. Could you please share contacts of your osteopath? What exactly did they do? We visited one today and he just held my daughter and talked to me.couldn’t see what exactly he was to doing to help her

my osteopath was local to me in Shrewsbury so I’m not sure contact information would be of much use!
Osteopathy is very gentle movements so it may just look like they are stroking or massaging your baby, trust the process ☺️ it usually takes a few appointments x

thank you. I will see how it goes ♥️

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This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

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