09/09/2025
Milestone timing and neurological function are two completely different things. ๐คฏ Your baby can hit every milestone "on schedule" while still having significant nervous system dysfunction that could affect their future.
Your traditional pediatrician might spend 10 minutes checking if your baby can roll, sit, crawl, and walk within broad timeframes. But are they assessing cross-pattern neural development? Nervous system coordination? Subluxation interference? Autonomic function balance? They may be missing this! (Unless you're seeing the rare kind of pediatrician that looks at the whole child and digs deeper...shout out to those awesome ones!!
Unfortunately, here's what we're seeing: during birth, interventions like forceps, vacuum delivery, and C-sections can create neurological stress. Add prenatal stress and environmental toxins, and you've got "The Perfect Storm" that can overwhelm your baby's developing nervous system. These factors don't show up on standard milestone checks, but they profoundly impact how your baby's brain and body function.
During your baby's first year, their brain doubles in size and forms over 1 million neural connections every second. Making this the most critical period for neurological development they'll ever experience. The first year represents the greatest neuroplasticity your child will ever have. This is when the gentle, effective Neurologically-Focused Care our office provides can create lasting positive change. ๐ซถ
