🌿 What is Infant Craniosacral & Fascial Therapy?

Your baby’s birth journey — even in the smoothest births — leaves gentle imprints and tension patterns in the soft tissues, fascia, and craniosacral system.
Craniosacral and fascial therapy is a gentle, hands-on approach that follows your baby's natural rhythms to release these patterns.

Using the lightest touch, we work with your baby’s cranial bones, jaw, neck, diaphragm, and fascia throughout the body. This helps restore balance, improve comfort, and support natural development — all while honoring your baby’s cues and nervous system.

✨ Why it works: supporting your baby’s natural blueprint

Babies are born with an incredible ability to heal, self-regulate, and adapt.
My role isn’t to “fix” your baby, but to gently support their body back toward ease and balance.

During pregnancy, babies may experience space constraints (breech, twins, low fluid). The birth process itself — whether vaginal or cesarean, quick or prolonged — can leave tension in the head, neck, and body that affects feeding, digestion, sleep, and comfort.

By gently releasing these patterns, craniosacral and fascial therapy helps your baby’s nervous system settle, supports better feeding, and promotes overall well-being.

🌱 Why ALL babies benefit — not just those with symptoms

Even babies who had “easy births” carry hidden tension.
Gentle bodywork can help your baby:

• Feed more comfortably and efficiently

• Sleep more deeply and settle more easily

• Breathe and move with freedom

• Feel calmer, less fussy, and more at ease in their own body

And for babies who do show challenges, therapy can be especially impactful.

🍼 Common symptoms & signs your baby may need craniosacral & fascial therapy

• Difficulty latching, shallow latch, clicking or leaking

• Reflux, gas, or colic-like fussiness

• Tongue/lip tie support
• Preference to look or nurse to one side

• Flat spots (plagiocephaly) or head shape asymmetry

• Torticollis or tight neck

• Arching, stiffness, or very floppy tone

• Shallow sleep or difficulty calming

• Birth history: long pushing stage, vacuum/forceps, cesarean, multiples, breech

If your baby has had or will have a tongue tie release, craniosacral & fascial therapy is an essential part of the recovery plan to help release compensatory tension.

✂️ Supporting Babies with Tongue & Lip Ties

Many of the babies I see have tongue ties, lip ties, or other oral tension that affect feeding, breathing, and comfort.

As a bodyworker deeply experienced in infant oral restrictions, I provide:

• Pre-release care: Preparing baby’s body and fascia to reduce compensations, improve oral function, and make the release gentler and more effective.

• Post-release care: Gentle craniosacral and fascial therapy to release lingering tension, support healing, and help integrate new movement patterns.

• Parent education: Teaching you stretches and exercises recommended by your provider team, plus whole-body techniques to reduce tightness from head to toe.

Tongue and lip tie aren’t just about the mouth — they affect the whole body’s movement, feeding mechanics, and nervous system regulation. Supporting babies both before and after release often makes the difference between ongoing struggle and smooth feeding.

✋ What to expect in a session with Amy

Thoughtful assessment

I start with a full intake of your pregnancy, birth, and feeding history, combined with gentle observation of your baby’s posture, head shape, breathing, and oral function.

Gentle hands-on therapy

Your baby stays clothed and is always in your sight — often resting on the table or in your lap.
I use light, responsive touch to listen to your baby’s body, release soft tissue restrictions, and create more space for comfort and function.

Parent teaching & home support

One session alone won’t fully change deep fascial patterns. That’s why your role is essential.
I’ll teach you simple stretches, holds, and calming techniques to practice at home. Together, this daily support helps create long-lasting change.

Family-centered care

Sometimes I work on mother and baby together, or include partner/siblings when needed. Your baby is deeply connected to your body and nervous system — supporting both often brings the best results.

📅 How many visits?

Many families see meaningful improvement in 2–3 sessions.
Babies with more complex tension patterns, feeding difficulties, or birth trauma may benefit from additional visits.
Every plan is customized to your baby’s needs, your goals, and in collaboration with your pediatrician, IBCLC, chiropractor, or other care providers.

🫶 Why work with Amy?

• Former labor & delivery nurse with years of experience supporting babies and families

• Advanced training in craniosacral and fascial therapy for infants

• Certified Body Ready Method™ practitioner for whole-family structural support

• Warm, family-centered approach that honors your intuition and keeps you involved every step of the way

🌿 Your baby doesn’t need to “just grow out of it”

Gentle craniosacral and fascial therapy can help babies feel calmer, feed better, and thrive — often preventing bigger challenges down the road.
You don’t have to wait for something to feel “wrong.” Early support helps every baby live more comfortably in their body.

📞 Ready to learn more?

Book an infant session, schedule a discovery call, or reach out with your questions.
You and your baby deserve care that is gentle, informed, and deeply respectful.