Hi Amy and all There have been posts on both LLL Online and Lacnet about babies being seen by chiropractors and getting good results. I am a chiropractor. I am not practicing because I chose to stay at home with my babies and then got so involved in lactation that I realized I'd rather be a lactation consultant than a chiropractor!! There are many different kinds of chiropractors out there who have gone to different schools with varying amounts of emphasis on heavy duty diagnostics. Also, some chiropractors who start their own businesses feel how competitive the 'market" is (even M.D.'s these days rarely start solo practices because it is so difficult) and they end up going to practice building courses which recommend charging in particular ways and setting up so many visits in advance for treatments. Because of this some have this some have less than shining reputations with patients who feel pressured into coming back frequently. Also, from what I understand DOs came to be able to prescribe drugs when the pharmaceutical companies lost business during the war when so many MDs were recruited and sent overseas and the companies pushed for DOs to be able to prescribe. Now so many DOs practice essentially the same as MDs that not that many of them use manipulative therapies. Also, prejudices of MDs against chiropractic were instilled in the fifties when the AMA perceived chirpractors as an economic threat YES ECONOMIC - ** not medica**l, and a committee actually instructed MDs not to socialize with chiropractors, not to refer to them or accept referrals from them. The AMA has been successfully sued because of this and had to formally retract these guidelines in the AMA journal a few years back. Even so, there remains a hesitancy on the part of some MDs about the suitability of chiropractic because they have never been instructed about it just as they have never been instructed about lactation! My husband (a DC, PhD, MD) and I have always adjusted our children. A professor of ours use to adjust his newborn children (he has 10) and gently mold their heads after their births. We have seen babies doing better after adjustments. The saccrooccipital technique some have refered to is a very gentle touching technique without the application of force. Manipulative techniques can have a wonderful effect both on health and body mechanics. It has quelled my nausea, taken away my back aches before and after pregnancy, taken away my headaches. I have treated people who couldn't bicycle because of sacral pain and then been able to after my treatment; I have treated women who had such bad menstrual periods that they missed two days of work every month and after treatment had no symptoms at all. Many MDs and PTs have gone to seminars to learn techniques because they have seen such positive results. So, it may be worthwhile for infants to be seen by chiropractors for these problems. I would spend some time interviwing the chiropractor and ask questions such as do you regualrly treat children and infants. What type of practice recomendations do you make? etc. so youfell comfortable with the practitioner. Mardrey in very windy NH [log in to unmask]