Baby Clara

by Heather Navarette-Linnemayer

I had the Honor of staying with Sylvia and her family in Santo Tome. She introduced me to one of her sisters, Laura, who had a baby five months ago named Clara who was born a month premature.

I was informed that the baby had already undergone two cranial surgeries. From what I understood, her lungs did not fully develop and she had to have a shunt put into her head to drain the cerebral spinal fluid back into her abdomen. The first surgery was unsuccesful and she had another surgery to correct the shunt.

One of the most amazing parts of this story is four nights before I was introduced to Clara I had a dream that I was working on a baby's head that was deformed. I now realize that it was Clara that I had met in my dreams.

I was thrilled to have four different opportunites to help little Clara restore her cranial sacral rhythm in her head with all of the cranial bones, and take some of the twist out of her spinal chord as well as help her abdominal organs regain their original mobility patterns.

The morning I left this family's home for my next adventure, Clara sat up on her own for the first time. She made huge progress in just four days - the entire familiy was so grateful they gifted me a set of pillow covers and a hand woven poncho and invited me to come back and stay with them any time I come to Argentina.

What a gift to all of us, I felt like I was in the right place at the right time with the right people. They told me that they asked all the doctors if there was any manual therapies for the head that they could do for Clara but nobody knew of anything. I gave them the website to look up trained craniosacral professionals as well as the classes that they will be offering on craniosacral therapy in Buenos Aires in August of this year.

I felt so blessed to have met a family so full of love for this little baby - they had the entire church and town praying for her recovery.