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“Crawling is key in developing crucial brain activities and skills that will allow the baby to succeed and to relate to ...
06/17/2026

“Crawling is key in developing crucial brain activities and skills that will allow the baby to succeed and to relate to his world in a more complete and satisfying manner. We should stimulate this activity by giving the baby “floor time” every day: placing him belly down to strengthen his neck, arm, and back muscles and placing colorful objects in front of him to encourage forward movements. And always remember to cheer him and to transmit love and confidence.” – Bernardo Sañudo-Diez, DC

Crawling is a foundational stage of infant development that supports neurological organization, brain hemisphere communication, spinal development, and sensory integration. Crawling also builds essential systems for future cognitive, motor, visual, and academic skills by strengthening coordination, spatial awareness, and the body’s ability to process and respond to complex environmental input.

Learn why crawling is a critical milestone for development, how cross-crawl patterning supports brain integration, and what parents can do to encourage healthy infant development in “Baby Crawling: How Important It Really Is” by Bernardo Sañudo-Diez, DC: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/childrens-health-wellness/baby-crawling-how-important-it-really-is.html

06/16/2026

“Larry Webster said, ‘Chiropractic today for a better world tomorrow’ and Jeanne Ohm furthered this call in the chiropractic profession by living out the words: ‘We are the ones we have been waiting for.’ What do these words mean to you? For me, these words challenge us to create a world where everyone benefits from chiropractic care, leading to happier, healthier lives. What are we waiting for? We need to keep sharing the gift of chiropractic care and to continue shining a beacon on what we do, so others may know and benefit from this gift called chiropractic.” – Pamela Stone, DC, DACCP

Learn about the development and significance of the Webster Technique in perinatal chiropractic care, and its role in supporting pelvic balance, optimal fetal positioning, and broader family wellness.

🌿 Keep reading “The Origin and Future of the ICPA and the Webster Technique” to deepen your understanding of the ICPA’s origins, the evolution of the Webster Technique, and the future of family-centered chiropractic care: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/chiropractic/the-origin-and-future-of-the-icpa-and-the-webster-technique.html

Modern maternity care is increasingly shaped by routine medical interventions such as inductions, continuous monitoring,...
06/15/2026

Modern maternity care is increasingly shaped by routine medical interventions such as inductions, continuous monitoring, and cesarean sections, even when there is no clear emergency.

While these tools can be essential when truly needed, their overuse introduces risk without improving outcomes.

Hospital systems and cultural pressures often influence clinical decision-making in ways that move away from individualized care. This creates a pattern where many women are guided toward intervention rather than supported in informed, embodied decision-making.

At the center is whether true informed consent is actually being honored in childbirth.

Learn how informed consent protects women and pregnant women’s autonomy in childbirth and how systemic pressures shape modern maternity care in hospital birth practices in “Informed Consent in Childbirth: Making Rights Into Reality” by Hermine Hayes-Klein. Read now: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/informed-choice/informed-consent-in-childbirth-making-rights-into-reality.html

06/12/2026

“Scientists have long studied how a mother’s internal environment influences her developing baby. Mothers are often encouraged to listen to classical music, quit smoking, eat healthier, or start light exercise to optimize brain development. Since the 1980s, cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton has presented evidence suggesting that maternal thoughts and emotions create a cascade of chemicals that affect the baby’s perception of the outside world. ‘Am I in a safe place,’ the baby seems to ask, ‘or do I need to activate my DNA programs for survival?’ Polyvagal theory further reinforces this connection between a mother’s state and her baby’s development.” – Dr. John Edwards, DC, DACCP

Healing and resilience are not built in isolation. Through the combined power of supportive relationships, community connection, and nervous system-focused care, mothers can move beyond survival mode, strengthen their capacity to navigate loss and stress, and create a more supportive environment for both their own wellbeing and their baby's developing nervous system.

Keep reading "Rainbow Polyvagal Pregnancy" by Dr. John Edwards, DC, DACCP to learn how nervous system regulation and connection can support a more empowered pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/pregnancy-birth/rainbow-polyvagal-pregnancy.html

“Breastfeeding offers numerous benefits for immune system enhancement as well. The first milk produced by the mother is ...
06/11/2026

“Breastfeeding offers numerous benefits for immune system enhancement as well. The first milk produced by the mother is called colostrum. Colostrum is nature’s perfect first food. It is the pre-milk substance produced from the mother’s breasts during the first 24 hours of lactation. From 24–48 hours this is called transitional milk. After 48 hours, milk is defined.

Colostrum supplies immune and growth factors and a perfect combination of vitamins and minerals to ensure the health, vitality, and growth of the newborn. It is estimated that colostrum triggers at least 50 processes in the newborn, including transferring all the immune factors and the entire memory from the mother’s own immune system to her baby.

Colostrum contains large quantities of an antibody called secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), a new substance to the newborn that assists the newborn’s adaptation to the outside womb environment.” — Andrew Keech, PhD

Immune health is shaped long before symptoms ever appear. Explore how pregnancy, birth, early microbial exposure, and infant feeding help lay the foundation for lifelong immune function, resilience, and adaptability.

Keep reading “Supporting the Immune System for the Care and Prevention of Autoimmunity” by Andrew Keech, PhD, to learn how early-life experiences help build immune resilience and support lifelong wellness: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/wellness-lifestyle/supporting-the-immune-system-for-the-care-and-prevention-of-autoimmunity.html

06/10/2026

Children do not live in the past or live in the future. They always live in the present with God. This seldom happens with adults. Adults collapse into guilt which represents the past or fear which represents the future. We need to be more "child-like".

Children are spiritual geniuses.

They don’t even try — they just are.

While we adults are busy time‑traveling in our heads, kids are out here living in the only moment that actually exists: now.

They don’t plan for the future or dissect the past. They don’t carry guilt like a backpack full of bricks or fear like a weather forecast they can’t turn off. They wake up, see the world, and meet it as it is — wide‑eyed, curious, and somehow already in conversation with God.

Meanwhile, adults… well, we get creative.

We invent entire emotional theme parks out of things that already happened or things that haven’t happened yet. Guilt is our favorite rerun of the past. Fear is our speculation about the future. And both pull us out of the one place where peace actually lives.

Children don’t do that.

They don’t collapse into anything. They expand.

They explore.

They trust.

Children always assume that we live in a friendly universe.

To be “child‑like” isn’t to be naïve. It’s to be present.

It’s to remember that the divine isn’t hiding in some distant mountaintop — it’s sitting right here in the moment we’re actually living. Kids know this instinctively. Adults have to relearn it, usually after a few decades of overthinking.

So maybe we adults should learn how to grow back — back into wonder, back into trust, back into the quiet certainty that we’re connected to something bigger than our worries.

A child doesn’t ask, “What if I fail?” A child doesn’t ask anything but to be present….right here…..right now.

Create a fabulous day!

– Armand Rossi, DC

“Even after labor has started, there are certain conditions that will slow, or even stop, the process. If the fight-or-f...
06/09/2026

“Even after labor has started, there are certain conditions that will slow, or even stop, the process. If the fight-or-flight hormones are activated by feelings of fear or danger, contractions can slow down. Our mammalian bodies are designed to give birth in the wild, where it is an advantage to postpone labor when the laboring female senses danger.” – Sarah J. Buckley, MB, ChB, Dip Obst

Birth is guided by an intricate hormonal intelligence. Feelings of safety, privacy, connection, and trust support the natural processes of labor, birth, bonding, and breastfeeding. Hormones like oxytocin, endorphins, and prolactin help mothers and babies navigate birth in a way that is both physiological and transformative.

Discover how understanding your body’s innate design for birth can help you approach labor with greater confidence, trust, and ease. Keep reading “Pain In Labor: Your Hormones Are Your Helpers” by Sarah J. Buckley, MB, ChB, Dip Obst at https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/pregnancy-birth/pain-in-labor-your-hormones-are-your-helpers.html

“More specifically, we have demonstrated that sustained positive emotions appear to give rise to a distinct mode of func...
06/08/2026

“More specifically, we have demonstrated that sustained positive emotions appear to give rise to a distinct mode of functioning, which we call heart coherence. During this mode, heart rhythms exhibit a sine-wave-like pattern and the heart’s electromagnetic field becomes correspondingly more organized. At the physiological level, this mode is characterized by increased efficiency and harmony in the activity and interactions of the body’s systems, encompassing phenomena such as entrainment, synchronization, and resonance. (Correlates of physiological coherence include: increased synchronization between the two branches of the autonomic nervous system, a shift in autonomic balance toward increased parasympathetic activity, increased heart-brain synchronization, increased vascular resonance, and entrainment between diverse physiological oscillatory systems.)” – Rollin McCraty, PhD

Emerging research on the heart’s electromagnetic field, heart–brain coherence, and social connection, highlights that emotions, relationships, and physiological states may influence both our internal regulation and our energetic interactions with others.

✨ Keep reading “The Social Heart: Energy Fields and Consciousness” by Rollin McCraty, PhD in the current issue of Pathways. Access now: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/new-edge-science/the-social-heart-energy-fields-and-consciousness.html

“It’s a society where young people, at the prime of their lives, are choosing in large numbers to opt out with mind-alte...
06/05/2026

“It’s a society where young people, at the prime of their lives, are choosing in large numbers to opt out with mind-altering drugs, or to opt out permanently through su***de.

More than this, we have set ourselves as a species on the road to self-destruction through our despoiling of our collective mother, the Earth. The havoc that we wreak through waste and greed has many parallels with our treatment of mothers and babies, and of our primal environment—our mothers’ wombs.” – By Sarah J. Buckley, MB

The way we conceive, carry, birth, and welcome children has profound implications not only for individual healing and human development, but also for the consciousness of society as a whole.

✨ Explore how healing our experiences around pregnancy and birth contribute to deeper healing within ourselves, our families, and the wider world. Keep reading “Healing Birth, Healing the Earth” by Sarah J. Buckley, MB now: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/pregnancy-birth/healing-birth-healing-the-earth-2.html

“The human body is miraculous. This principle of organization produces a self-healing, self-organizing and self-regulati...
06/04/2026

“The human body is miraculous. This principle of organization produces a self-healing, self-organizing and self-regulating organism that is adapting and appropriately responding to its environment, constantly striving for optimal function. In chiropractic, this is known as ‘innate intelligence.’

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Bobby Doscher, DC

Chiropractic philosophy is rooted in the idea that the body is self-healing and self-organizing through an innate intelligence. Chiropractic care supports this natural process by removing interference so the body can recover, develop, and express greater health over time.

🌿 Read “The Premise of Chiropractic” by Bobby Doscher, DC to explore how chiropractic philosophy approaches healing from within and how supporting the body’s natural intelligence helps restore health and vitality: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/chiropractic/the-premise-of-chiropractic.html

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