Baby Intubation and Development - Breathing and Cranial Suture Midlines.
Jan 19, 2024
As you know, I work with a lot of children that have had time in the NICU. Not all NICU stays are dealing with respiratory distress however, they do usually involve facial pinning. I would like to start discussions of milestone availability and facial/cranial interruptions of development.
Many of you know, that I can 'see' or notice the movement presence of devices that impede movement during the application. A baby's body can remain in the situation - long after the device has been removed.
I do want to stress that medical intervention is necessary and shouldn't be avoided or have a sense of guilt around the course of actions taken to save your child's life. I would like to make this information more available so that you can take the steps needed to bring back movement into your child's life.
Let's look at intubation.
Your child breathing is now being forced through an endotracheal tube (ET). This tubing goes through the mouth and into...
2 Ways Intubation, Feeding Tube (NG or NJ Tube), and / or NICU Time Affects Milestone Development
Dec 28, 2021
Birth Trauma and Cranial Developments
Birth Trauma can be a variety of things:
- Intubation
- Feeding Tube (NG or NJ Tube)
- NICU Time
- and more
When a child experiences a birth trauma that interrupts their cranial movements, developmental delays can occur.
How?
Because these types of birth trauma can cause two types of jams in the cranial system.
First, is an ATLAS JAM
Your child may be struggling with things like:
- Head control
- Eating
- Swallowing
- Hates tummy time
- Not rolling over
The head needs to be able to counter all the movements in the spine, and when there is an atlas jam, it can't; therefore key transitional movements patterns can not occur.
Why Are Transitional Movement Patterns Important?
Transitional Movement Patterns are what should happen in a person's body between each of the "baby milestones" that you know.
These are not all of the established milestones given by the CDC, but here are just a few:
- Head lift
- Tummy time
- Head control
- Rolling over
- ...