At times, parents may think their child is experiencing a regression or plateau while under chiropractic care. Neurological development and healing are not linear, and progress doesn’t always look the way we expect it to. The nervous system works in phases, often showing pauses or shifts as it reorganizes and integrates new levels of function.

For many parents, infant digestion issues like constipation, colic, or feeding difficulties can feel mysterious and frustrating. But when we look closely at how digestion is wired into your baby’s tiny nervous system, the picture becomes much clearer. The cranial nerves, a set of 12 nerves emerging directly from the brain, play critical roles not just in simple reflexes like crying or breathing, but in how your baby feeds, swallows, and moves food through the digestive tract.

In today’s digital age, smartphones are almost always within arm’s reach, even during feeding and bonding time with babies. A 2021 study explored how maternal smartphone use influences mothers’ attention and physiological responses during two key early interactions: breastfeeding and face-to-face engagement with their infants.