At the risk of starting another huge argument -- whatever is the problem
with babies who have mis-shapen heads after birth and sucking problems, and
whatever it is that cranial-sacral therapy does to help . . . it is still
NOT the case that the cranial nerves get "squished" during birth.  They come
out through foramina (holes in the bone) which are non-squishable.  The
bones of the head mold and ride up over one another during the birth
process, but the cranial nerves do not come out between the bones, and the
foramina that they pass through are holes in hard bone, not squishable.  If
you stop and think about this for a minute, it is obvious that if the
cranial nerves could be damaged so easily, we'd have lots and lots of
newborn with severed nerves or permanently injured nerves.  No species could
survive with an anatomy like this.

I am NOT disputing that cranio-sacral therapy works, just disputing the
explanation for why some babies have problems.

The early days of LactNet, archives alas inacessible now, contain mountains
of discussion about this.  There were some wild flames, as I recall (not by
me, of course!).

Kathy Dettwyler

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