John Chitty lays out a 5-step sequence for working with babies.
John's website: www.energyschool.com
Episode highlights:
There is a strong tradition and justification for therapy sessions with newborn babies.
A main inspiration is Robert Fulford, D.O.
Books:
Dr. Fulford’s Touch of Life: The Healing Power of the Natural Life Force – Robert Fulford, D.O. - Gallery Books
Are We on the Path? The Collected Works of Robert Fulford, D.O. – Robert Fulford – Cranial Press
Mentioned by Andrew Weil in Spontaneous Healing – Random House
Fulford had good results with many common problems faced by babies. Baby’s problems affect the whole family. Fulford championed cranial base work and ANS health as useful areas for helping babies resolve echoes of the birthing experience. Babies have significant ability to resolve issues when given some support. Fulford helped us see what effective support looks like.
John has been teaching a class about working with babies annually for the last 8 years. The ideas he will lay out today are a summary of what he has incorporated into this class.
He likes Franklyn Sills’ Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Vol. II. It has several chapters devoted to babies. It is not exactly what John Does, but he likes it overall.
Other Books:
Craniosacral Therapy for Babies and Small Children - Ettiene Piersman  North Atlantic Books
Pediatric Manual Medicine: An Osteopathic Approach - Jane Carreiro  Churchill Livingstone
Craniosacral Therapy for Children -  Daniel Agustoni  North Atlantic Books
 
Ray Castellino – Santa Barbara - clinic pioneered recognition and conversation skills. www.castellinotraining.com
 
Carrie Conti PhD
www.carriecontey.com
 
APPPAH – Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health
www.birthpsychology.com
 
Dave Paxson
www.facebook.com/davepaxson
 
John is working on a book right now about working with babies. Release date TBA.
Many people feel daunted by working with babies, but a little goes a long way and it is better to go ahead and start. There are babies right now who could use your help! Changes made now have a lot of leverage in the life of the child and happiness of the family system.
Armed with only a few steps and some basic knowledge, you can be of significant help. Try it out.
John’s 5 step sequence for working with babies:
Can be useful for many different issues and employed at varying depths.
 
1) Recognition – we suffer as a culture from over-scientification of ourselves. This misses the reality of the baby’s identity as a newly arriving soul into our realm. This can be approached in a secular manner, with only an acknowledgement that there is an invisible world out there that is not understood by science. Religion or mysticism is not required to work with John’s ideas, just an acknowledgement that the therapist be comfortable with the idea that we cannot measure all of reality, as much of it is invisible.
We need to recognize the Baby. A formula for recognition:

I know who you are
I know where you came from.  
I know why you are here.  

Look baby in the eye with appropriate proximity he/she would have with mom’s eyes (12 inches or so) . and recognize:
I know who you are - a unit of consciousness from another sphere
I know where you came from - the invisible world
I know why you are here - to encounter the resistance of matter for the fulfillment of consciousness.
Recognition alone may bring about positive changes.
 2) Tidal Movement
From Craniosacral Biodynamics - simply palpating the Tide seems to stabilize the system, and recognize baby on another level of embodiment. It can be done anywhere on the body. May have one hand on baby, one hand on mom. Babies may have inhibition of the downward phase (exhalation). Our culture contributes to this. We need to be more conscious of caring for the autonomic nervous systems of babies. They are mostly oriented to the social nervous system, and have limited defaulting to sympathetic arousal modes. If that fails, they go into