Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapists (OTs) assess an infant or child’s development with a focus on their “occupations”.
For infants and children, this may include:
- Play
- Eating
- Sleeping
- Building Independence in Self-care Activities
- Successfully participating in programs such as childcare or school
The WOMB’s OTs will work with you and your child toward meeting your child’s developmental goals and milestones. As play is one of the main occupations for any child, your OT will use a fun, play-based approach to assess and interact with your child. The OT will also coach you or another caregiver to feel confident in your ability to support your child in their own environment.
Areas of focus may include:
- Fine motor: including using both hands together, reaching and grasping toys, coordination of small finger movements required for self-help activities, handwriting, holding a pencil and using scissors.
- Self-help: including self-feeding, getting dressed, bathing and brushing teeth.
- Feeding: including managing textures, transitioning to solids, independently feeding, using utensils, picky eating, positioning, chewing and swallowing.
- Sensory processing: over or under sensitive to input involving sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell and movement
- Visual-motor: Coordinating the body’s movements based on what the eyes perceive.
- Play: including how to play, developmental stages of play, toy selection and motor skills for play.
- Cognition: Thinking and planning for what is needed for daily functioning (Example: learning, organization, problem solving, focus and attention)
- Self-regulation: How we manage our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
- Social skills: How we interact with others.
Other Practitioner Services
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an effective healing technique that safely stimulates and corrects the flow of energy in your body, which can support fertility, pregnancy, postpartum health and many other conditions.
Breastfeeding + Infant Feeding
When feeding is going well it can be a beautiful time of bonding, however, when there are feeding challenges it can lead to stress, anxiety and worry.
Chiropractic Care
Chiropractors are experts keeping the spine properly aligned so that clear messages can travel to and from the brain and throughout the body.
Counselling and Coaching
Life can sometimes feel hectic, overwhelming and uncertain. There can be a lot of stress associated with fertility, having a family, changing relationships, and life in general.
Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral therapy is particularly helpful for treating newborns and infants. Difficulty nursing can be a result of tensions and restrictions in the baby’s head, spine or body.
Doula Support
At The WOMB, our doulas provide physical and emotional support to help you feel safe, empowered, and advocated for throughout your birthing process.
Holistic Nutrition
As such, any health recommendations provided by a Holistic Nutritionist, whether they are diet, supplement or lifestyle changes, are made specifically to YOU.
Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic medicine seeks to identify and treat the root cause of illness and see your body as a whole system functioning together, rather than a set of symptoms.
Osteopathy
Osteopathy is a manual form of therapy including cranio-sacral therapy, that uses palpation and manipulative techniques to restore balance to your muscles, joints, nerves, connective tissue, and internal organs.
Paediatric Physiotherapy
The WOMB’s Paediatric Physiotherapists treat infants, children and youth from newborn to 18 years of age with congenital, orthopedic and neurological conditions.
Pelvic Health Physiotherapy
Even though pelvic floor challenges are common, they are treatable and you should not have to live with them.
Registered Massage Therapy
The WOMB specializes in massage for fertility enhancement, pregnancy, caesarean scar tissue release, postpartum recovery and infant massage.
Sleep Support, Consults and Education
he WOMB’s support is ideal for parents who would like to learn more about age-appropriate sleep behaviour and determine the WHY behind their baby’s sleep challenges.
Speech & Language Therapy
A Speech-Language Pathologist is trained to help assess and treat children and adults with various speech, language and feeding difficulties.