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CASE HISTORIES – Babies & Toddlers COLIC - The Bowen Technique gives excellent
to stretch. She then fell asleep. Her mother rang
results in relieving colic in babies under 4 months
the therapist the next day to say that she had fed K.
old, often with only one treatment. At 4 months of
for the first time without having her vomit
age, babies tend to suffer less from colic, but if it is
afterwards and she seemed more settled. Since
then she has had no recurrence of the problem.
BREATHING DIFFICULTY
J. was four weeks old and suffering from severe
S. was often unable to draw breath when crying,
colic after meals which was distressing for him and
even fainting and requiring artificial respiration on
for his poor parents. During the Bowen treatment
one occasion. He was given three treatments in a
he seemed to relax completely. After this one
short period of time. First, the therapist performed
the moves on S.’s soft toys with him puffing. Then his mum tried her hand on him and finally he
allowed the therapist to touch him while he
performed a few of the gentle moves. After a year,
This little girl had very bad colic. The midwife had
there has been no recurrence of the problem.
tried everything but she was still being sick half
CHILDHOOD ASTHMA
way through the feed and at the end, she was displaying the classic sign of crunching her knees.
She was taken to see Bowen practitioner Dawn
T, aged 2 years, suffers with asthma. At her first
Davies who administered the standard Bowen
treatment she was very wheezy and had been
treatment for colic, with her parents holding her.
prescribed steroids, which her mother was
After the treatment the baby was calmer (when she
reluctant to use. Both parents smoke. The
arrived she had been screaming). Dawn then gave
wheezing reduced after the first treatment and has
the baby her bottle and, much to the amazement of
now disappeared, though there was a period of
her parents, she took her feed with no problems
and they phoned Dawn a week later to say the
improved after 4 treatments, so much so that the
baby had not looked back since and was now a
school have commented on it. The steroids were
discontinued before the first treatment. It is very difficult to treat a two-year-old child who is sitting
SLEEPING PROBLEMS
and squirming on her mother’s knees. However, it
seemed to work well despite those difficulties.
M. was a fine, healthy baby weighing 7 lbs. After
Normally, the child has had asthma attacks every
10 days, her mother rang the Bowen therapist to
two weeks or so during the winter. She has had
say that all was well but that the baby was sleeping
all day and awake all night and she wondered if the
therapist could do anything that might help to
“My 2½ year old daughter has suffered from
reorganise the baby’s body clock. The therapist
asthma and also an over-production of mucus from
visited them at home and gave M., who was
birth. She has Ventolin and also Becotide on
dozing, a Bowen treatment. That night she slept
right through, apart from feeding, and was awake
worsened and the GP advised restarting steroids at
more during the day. She has continued to follow
a higher dose. She took a severe reaction to
steroids so we stopped them immediately. That week she received her first Bowen and has had
PROJECTILE VOMITING
treatment once or twice a month since. She has not
needed any medication since; she has a very slight period of wheezing occasionally which is managed
K. was vomiting after every meal and was not
with essential oils. It has been a remarkable
absorbing her food. She had been thoroughly checked by the paediatrician and nothing was
improvement, particularly as she is a lively two
found to be wrong. She seemed to be a rather
year old who doesn’t always stay still for the
agitated little baby and her mother was anxious
and worried. Immediately after the Bowen
treatment, K. became much less agitated and began
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