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Your Baby Borrows Your Nervous System: Understanding Co-Regulation from Pregnancy to 25
Birth changes where your baby lives. It doesn't change how much they rely on you.
In those first months, your baby's nervous system is still so immature that it can't settle itself. It does something remarkable instead: it borrows yours. Your heartbeat, your breathing, your voice, the tension (or softness) in your arms. Your baby reads all of it, constantly, and adjusts to match.
Why Your Baby Might Be Stuck in Fight-or-Flight.
A newborn's nervous system isn't a blank slate. By the time a baby arrives in the world, it has already been shaped by nine months of connection to their mother's physiology, and it's about to be shaped again — profoundly — by the process of being born. For some babies, that shaping happens smoothly. For others, a combination of prenatal, birth, and postnatal experiences can leave their nervous system stuck in a state of protection rather than one of calm, connected safety.
Primitive & Retained Reflexes
Primitive Reflexes play a major role in this transformation of how our brains will develop. From the instant of our birth, our brains embark on a journey of growth and transformation, these reflexes a major to brain development…
Should infants be checked for Subluxation?
Being born is tough work. There are a lot of pressures and forces being exerted onto your baby during her journey into the world. Read more here about how birth can cause subluxation ..