This is a free clinic offered to children birth to age 3 years and their mothers. At each clinic the mother and child will join Karen Sjostrom Hedger in a local pool. Your baby will experience Craniosacral releases, and you will hold you baby and / or assist with releases as you wish. Mothers will have opportunities to assist with releases, learn touch skills and enjoy the benefits of being in the wather themselves.
Benefits to Baby and Parent: Attachment & Bonding
- Helps bring ease and regulations to the central nervous system, affecting the digestive, respiratory and circulatory functions, often relieving the discomforts of gas and belly distress.
- Helps the baby relax and relieve stresses built up from so many new experiences each day.
- Enhances the loving connection between mother and baby, and builds touch skills and connections through non-verbal cues.
- Helps mothers release tension and stress from anxiety, sleepless nights and full schedules.
- Encourages mothers to parent with presence and compassion for self and other.
- Encourages the lifelong benefits that come from early relationships that are loving, healthy and secure.
Monthly Clinic: We offer a free monthly clinic for babies ages birth to 18 months and their mothers. These clinics will be on hold through the summer, but will resume again in the fall. Please check back soon for dates and times!
Individual Sessions: Individual healing sessions are available for babies and / or parents with a variety of needs. These sessions can be water based pool sessions or healing sessions at the office.
Fathers are also welcome to attend!
Call for your slot: (207)-667-6783
AquaCranial® Therapy is an extension of CranioSacral Therapy developed by Rebecca Goff. An advanced modality, it is a mix of osteopathic based cranial sacral moves, dolphin therapy movements, and visionary emotional release work developed through years of cetacean research. Exceptionally relaxing, AquaCranial's extremely light touch decompresses the spine, cranium and other areas of bone and tissue. This balancing of the CranioSacral System eliminates physical stresses from the body acquired throughout a lifetime. A slightly altered state at the end of the session is not uncommon and passes after a few minutes rest poolside. Occasionally adults may experience feeling slightly emotional due to deep releases within the central nervous system during treatment. By strengthening the body's ability to take care of itself a wide range of illness, pain and dysfunction can be alleviated. Benefits include resistance to disease, better health in general and a looser, more relaxed body.
Therapeutic Value for Pregnant Mothers
Pregnancy is an opportunity to explore personal skills in self-care. Studies suggest that maternal stress effects fetal wellbeing. Intuitively we know that relaxation is healing. AquaCranial Therapy® deals directly with this; decompressing, destressing and relaxing the pregnant mother with gentle movement and light touch. Decreased back pain, increased movement possibilities and greater acceptance of mother and child have been reported experiences. AquaCranial® is a gift for the mother and the unborn child.
"I felt a total sense of calmness, peace and connection
with my baby" ~ Mom to be, Seal Harbor, ME
Monthly Clinic
We offer a free monthly clinic for pregnant mothers. These clinics will be on hold through the summer, but will resume again in the fall. Please check back soon for dates and times!
Anyone who has particpated in the past and has since had their baby, Sara would love to know about it. Please feel free to follow the email link below and drop her a line!
Individual Sessions
Individual sessions are available for pregnant mothers, children and adults with a variety of needs. Profound healing effects have been experienced for individuals with high levels of stress, chronic pain, frequent headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and immune system problems. This has also helped clients release phobias and fears, including fears of the water. The cost for these sessions is $75.00 per session. The cost of pool entry is a separate fee.
"…a deep state of relaxation like nothing I've ever experienced." Editor in chief, Coast Magazine, Aug/Sept, 2002
AquaCranial® Therapist
Sara Pierce is a certified AquaCranial therapist having been trained with the founder, Rebecca Goff. She continues advanced training and periodically offers sessions in the Florida Keys in the ocean both at the beach and in the deep water. In addition, Sara is a physical therapist and Integrated Awareness® teacher with further experience in CranioSacral therapy, zero balancing, sensory processing and visceral manipulation.
Please send questions and comments to: dtaus@hotmail.com or call (207) 667-6783
Information will be posted soon.
Parents teach by example. We have begun offering many of our services to parents, knowing that children learn best from their parents and that change by one member in a family influences all members of a family.
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Parents are exposed to manual techniques and teaching techniques.
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Parents are encouraged to explore their personal belief systems and how these beliefs might influence their children.
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Parents are encouraged to explore their emotional responses to change.
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Parents are taught targeted skills to encourage specific teaching to their children.
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Parents are encouraged to ask questions, become curious and manifest creative solutions for themselves, their children and their families.
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community based service offered to families of young children, birth to
18 months of age. Visits take place within one-hour sessions with two
professionals trained to work with infants, toddlers and their families.
Through observation, play, feeding and dialogue, the team headed by the
parents, explores questions and concerns of the family and young child.
The team uses both a developmental framework and a functional look at
the child and family's day. The purpose of the clinic is to make each
day a little easier, accessing strengths and creating successful experiences
from which a child and caregiver can grow. Interventions can include a
wide range of strategies. Appropriate referrals to other disciplines and
agencies are encouraged when necessary to meet this goal.
Fussy Baby Clinic Offers:
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Time to talk with professionals… a time to explore what you love about your baby and what you might want to make different.
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Opportunity to improve bonding… by increasing awareness of what your baby is wanting.
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Help with development… by meeting your child "where they are" you can stimulate the next steps."
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Help with eating… by looking at small changes that can make everyone's day better.
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Empowerment… enhance your abilities to understand your baby's unique needs.
Fussy Baby Clinic team members are parent educators who have completed training in infant, toddler and family issues and in the AKID approach. They are committed to helping you learn interactive communication with your baby through love, play and fun to make each day a little easier. We have the vision that one day every parent, child and infant will have the opportunity to experience the lifelong benefits that come from early relationships that are loving, healthy and secure.
About the program
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Fussy Baby Clinic occurs at 102 Main St. Ste. A in Ellsworth, Maine at the office of DTA Center for Learning & Growing Call 207-667-6783 for an appointment.
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Home visits for special needs may be arranged.
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Clinics are scheduled once a month. Arrangements can be made for other appointments if needed.
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First session donation of $10.00 is requested.
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Follow up sessions are paid on a sliding fee scale of $10.00 - $60.00 per session. In some cases insurance may be billed at your request.
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All sessions include written home instructions specific to your child and family. Written reports are available upon request.
Please send questions and comments to: dtaus@hotmail.com or call (207) 667-6783
Please send questions and comments to: dtaus@hotmail.com or call (207) 667-6783
