These photos show standard medical practice

for delivering a child.

Notice the head rotation in the first photo. This twisting can subluxate the baby’s cervical spine (neck area). If your baby was born using forceps as shown in the second photo, then cranial bone abnormalities and upper neck problems may occur. The third photo shows a baby being inverted with the back arched.

This fourth photo shows a vacuum extractor being pulled off the baby’s skull. This instrument can lead to brain swelling, cranial bone abnormalities and upper neck problems. This last photo shows the baby’s head being pulled on.

What can lead to irritated nerves and spinal subluxations in infants and toddlers? Let us start with the birthing process. (for more information go to http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/chiropractic/birthtrauma.htm) The photos you see above, although difficult to look at, give a dramatic presentation at what happens in a typical medical delivery. Difficult deliveries, especially those involving the use of forceps or suction often lead to the baby’s first spinal subluxation in the neck region. These subluxations can cause illness and disease in your child. Studies have found hemorrhage and indentation in the lower brain stem, combined with vertebral subluxations of the upper neck area, (see http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/chiropractic/sids.htm).