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Severe Childhood Constipation From Birth Trauma
I am presenting a story involving two worlds of newborn care. The first is today’s world; the second is my…
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Infant Mouth Breathing
In the Gillespie Approach infant mouth breathing is a red flag indicator. My first thought would be if the infant…
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Small Mouth Opening
After the second tongue-tie revision, the surgeon said the baby had a small mouth opening—here’s why. A five-month-old presents with…
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Authentic Healing and the Gillespie Approach
The body heals itself in its own time and not before. A patient in her 40s was peeling the layers…
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A Complex Intensive for a Six-Year-Old Girl
When a young child comes to you for a three-day intensive, you never know what will present and what will…
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A Typical Gillespie Approach Fussy Baby
A two-month-old presented with sucking issues. He latched better after his tongue tie and lip tie revisions, but still had…
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Childhood Migraine
A former student from a 2000 Gillespie Approach course training brought her 13-year-old son to me recently for therapy. He…
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Adult Torticollis
I have often wondered when working on babies with torticollis, what does an untreated baby look like as an adult?…
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The Oral Onion
After his third treatment visit, the young man suffering with anxiety and depression from the May 3 post reported that…
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Respiratory Compression at Birth
A four-year-old girl presents with continual bouts of pneumonia. After four bronchoscopies during her lifetime, her doctor diagnosed her with…
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