Birth Trauma
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“Do Your Magic”
“Do your magic.” In my 45 years in the field I have heard this phrase a few times. Even though…
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Infant Heart Murmur
“Our pediatrician nonchalantly said, ‘It’s no big deal.’” All of the ducks are lined up in this story: At two…
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Bedwetting, Constipation, and Circumcision
I cannot even imagine what it would have been like when I was nine years old and still wetting the…
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Orthodontics and the Gillespie Approach
We need to think about orthodontics differently. In the 1930s my dad was one of the first orthodontists in Connecticut.…
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A Blue Baby With a Wrapped Umbilical Cord
“I told all the doctors that she was never right from birth. Every one told me what happened at birth…
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Thoughts About Orthodontics
I am creating a hypothesis around a unique office visit. A 24-year-old man presented at his eighth visit with unexplained…
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Tips on Practicing the Gillespie Approach
Thank you, John Malloy, for reminding me of “overthinking” at a Gillespie Approach Course. As my students were treating each…
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The History of the Work at Birth
In 1978 I noticed that children did well with my work. My interest was spurred in 1980 when some children…
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Change a Life at Birth
I believe that for some children the work directly at birth could have made a world of difference. This story…
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Overlapping Infant Cranial Bones
As for overlapping cranial bones, infants can respond well to therapy because the edges of their cranial plates are rounded,…
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