Thank you for this very important post, Pat.  Poor little guy!   Sounds 
like craniosacral therapy with emotional release could be helpful.   Also 
perhaps a specific Bach remedy (there is a listing on website Feel  Bach).  A 
long time ago an OT told a mother we were working with, whose son  had a spinal 
as an infant, that she worked with a school aged child who struck  out 
whenever someone touched his lower back (that child had had a spinal as  infant, 
as well).  She felt it was important for him and others to know why  he was 
doing this.  Unfortunately I don't recall if once he knew he could  control 
his response but I think this was the case.  
 
Muscles have memory and maybe this little guy experienced pressure on his  
feet while sleeping simply with body movement and this triggered his  
response.  I think it is safe to say that trauma to infants with procedures  may 
cause PTSD.  I always tell moms whose babies have frenotomies to  apologize 
to baby and most of them are using a combination homeopathic remedy  prior to 
and after frenotomy.  I do worry about these traumas,  nonetheless.
 
Barbara Latterner, BSN, RN, IBCLC
 
 
A friend of mine told me this about her grandson. She gave me permission to 
 post it because we need to hear it! <<My grandson has had night terrors  
since he was a few months old.  He screams and thrashes and is impossible  to 
comfort and very difficult to wake and calm.  It is really upsetting to  
see him like this at 3 AM.  He is now 3 1/2 years old.  Last night he  had 
another terror.  After my daughter woke him and got him calm (about 1  hour) 
she asked him what frightened him.  He has never answered her  before.  This 
time he said "Mommy, don't let the nurses poke my heels, it  Hurts!"  He 
hasn't had a single heel poke or anyone messing with his feet  since he was in 
the NICU!!!!  Who says babies don't feel pain!  Who  says the way they are 
handled doesn't matter???  This gives me  shivers!>> Pat Bucknell IBCLCAvon 
Lake  OH


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