My goal is to support your family by providing integrative solutions and act as your health advocate. 
I do recommend you have a pediatrician with whom you have established a patient in addition to my care.  Seasonal maintenance visits as well as care during times of ill health will give you and your child the best preventative care possible.  I work within your health care and immunization choices to provide the ideal treatments for your child.   I also recommend you find out your childs blood type so that a full understanding of his or her constitution can be supported early on.  As your child grows and changes their  needs will change and I aim to help you understand the changes and teach you strategies that will empower your ability to care for your child naturally with home based and specific remedies.  During seasonal epidemics I offer guidance and support and products that are ideal for children.

The first 2 years of life are a delicate time in a childs life.  As a healthy exercise of their immunity the most common illnesses are fever, colds, coughs, rashes, irritability, digestive problems and insomnia.  These are not only natural and healthy for a child to experience and for the development of the immune system.  These childhood "dis- eases" (uneasynesses) should be treated with gentle and natural medicines, pure foods and supportive techniques such as gua sha, infant tui na, cupping, herbal and homeopathic medicines. These methods treat not just the symptoms but will preserve the immune systems ability to deal with things.  Immediatly giving motrin or tylenol at the first sign of a fever is often counter productive if only for temporary relief of crying and fussyness and only further exacerbated problems as it is hard on a childs liver and detoxification pathways.

The birth experience may have had an effect on the structural aspect of the physiology and can be gently corrected with massage and gentle craniosacral techniques that liberate fascia and clear stored trauma in the body.  Many mothers tell me their birth stories and feel that there may be some emotional or spiritual trauma that is effecting their child.  They sometimes have a lot of guilt and have not cleared their own birth trauma due to c-sections, bad experiences of the birth, ect.  Often the fact that the mother is feeling this way-will supporting the energy of it.  The impression remains and without transformation it will become a layer that sets a foundation in experience  Flower essences are helpful to clear any percieved or un percieved birth or gestational traumas that may exist.  There is a saying in chinese medicine.  "To treat the child, treat the mother".  This is a 5 element theory that not only serves as a foundation for treating a persons organs but it is also a key point in treating pediatric patients.

In summary, children have an uncanny ability to come into balance.  Health depends upon balance energetically, structurally, chemically as well as emotionally.  Sometimes our geneticsSchedule regular visits with an integrative pratitioner that will support these aspects of your childs health as you would the well baby visits with a pediatrician. Health is preserved with pure food, pure water and pure medicine. 

What Can We do to Honor the Child’s Physiology?
 
*Avoid medications, drugs and chemicals during pregnancy.
* Avoid perfumes, room deodorizers or other synthetic scents around infants.
* Buy animal foods and things eaten frequently that are free of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics.
*Avoid negative and stressful situations during pregnancy, food additives and preservatives.
*Avoid giving immunizations until the child is at least 2 years of age and healthy.  Carefully consider your options.
*Avoid treating children excessively with antibiotics and Tylenol, choose homeopathic medicines, herbs. Replace Tylenol with Motrin if needed.
*Avoid feeding on demand and over feeding which leads to food stagnation, heat and phlegm.
*Limit feeding kids hard to digest foods such as dairy, cheese, peanut butter and tofu.  Instead feed them plenty of cooked veggies, lean meats and fish and whole grains and pure water.  Treats sweetened with natural sugars or diluted fruit juice in small quantities is best.
*Learn to massage children to naturally enhance their immune, digestive and elimination pathways, incorporate massage in the bed or bath time ritual.
*Use acupressure points to assist the strengthening of organs and systems.
*Encourage children to deal with emotions in a healthy way with out shame.  Use flower essences to help your child in transitional times.
*Teach kids how to “Belly Breathe”.