Patricia writes:

The one  think that the institute does  is that when you visit the website  
(www.upledger.com)looking for a practitioner you can see ALL the classes 
they  have taken/ if they are teaching assistants and  if they are  
certified...

For our purposes as ibclc's we are looking  for someone who has trained in 
peds/



~~~ 
This is not very technical, but I learned about the bodywork practitioners  
in my area from mothers who worked with them. When I first learned about 
CST  about 7 years ago, it was through a mother/baby dyad experience in which  
this poor baby was so miserable with reflux pain that he was basically 
anorexic,  would not breastfeed, could barely bottlefeed, and cried about 23 
hours a day,  this baby was MISERABLE. No tongue tie. MD put baby on one reflux 
drug after  another with little positive change and the lovely side effect 
of the first one  was insomnia as well. Maybe the drug just didn't work and 
baby was in too much  pain to sleep? Mother and I kept in touch. Someone had 
recommended CST to her,  and within a few weeks baby was off all meds, was 
breastfeeding happily without  any need for supplementation off breast, and 
baby was much better in general. As  mom said he always had "some issues" in 
terms of gut comfort and general  outlook/processing of life information ( 
as did both parents), but  WHAT a difference. So I decided I needed to learn 
more and went to many CST  sessions with new parents so I could watch the 
practitioner, learn from him, and  share my observations and impressions as 
well. We try to work as a team and it's  been very helpful for many nursing 
families over these past near  7 years. When I looked this person up on 
Upledger, he was not certified in  CST, but has taken many core courses, has 
other certification in  bodywork. I also know from experience that he is  both 
highly skilled  and wonderful with families, explaining what he does and why 
it makes a  difference. He has become the go-to person for me and the 
families I work with,  because although he was not trained in peds, he allowed the 
babies to teach him,  pairing what he already knew, with what they had to 
share. This has made me a  "rogue" practitioner, losing referrals from MDs 
who used to respect me. In the  end, it's about the families, so I still 
openly discuss what I have learned from  this person and the babies themselves, 
so families can make their own decisions.  By the way, I found the 
practitioner totally open to my being at visits over and  over for years as I learned 
and he learned too. It's a great collaboration  effort and makes up for 
being blacklisted by some MDs...:) 
 
Peace,
Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY,  USA
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