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Dr. Casey Baker DC Family wellness chiropractor specializing in pregnancy, post-natal and paediatric care serving Barrie and Simcoe County

Life lately has been a lot of listening to Colby communicate her needs, watching Andi learn something new almost daily, ...
10/19/2026

Life lately has been a lot of listening to Colby communicate her needs, watching Andi learn something new almost daily, juggling clinic days and trying to keep up with everything happening at home.

Some days are chaotic, and there's almost always something that doesn't get crossed off the to-do list.

But I also get to watch my girls grow, do work that I genuinely love and come home to a life that Jason and I have built together.

And being able to share what I've learned, both as a mom and a chiropractor, with other families is something I'll never take for granted.

It's a full season of life, in more ways than one. 🤍

There’s something about this stage of motherhood that makes the little things feel weirdly big.A first birthday.A first ...
10/15/2026

There’s something about this stage of motherhood that makes the little things feel weirdly big.

A first birthday.
A first party with school friends.
Watching their interests become personalities.

And apparently, for me, turning all of that into a themed birthday parties three months early.

Although, with two birthdays so close to Christmas, I feel like a little extra planning time is necessary.

I know they probably won’t remember every detail.

But I will.

And I think that’s part of why I’m loving the planning so much.

Anyone else get way more emotionally invested in their kids’ birthdays than they expected?

Turns out, good paediatric care can look a lot less dramatic than the internet makes it seem.I’m not trying to find a pr...
10/13/2026

Turns out, good paediatric care can look a lot less dramatic than the internet makes it seem.

I’m not trying to find a problem every time I look at your baby.

I’m trying to understand the whole picture, explain what I’m seeing, and be clear about whether this is something we work on, watch for a little longer, or hand off to someone else.

That might make me a “bad chiropractor” for the trend.

I’m okay with that. 😅

If you’re a parent who wants more context and less panic around development, you’re in the right place.

Pregnancy loss is part of my story too.After Colby, Jason and I experienced a miscarriage. I’ve shared pieces of that ex...
10/09/2026

Pregnancy loss is part of my story too.

After Colby, Jason and I experienced a miscarriage. I’ve shared pieces of that experience before, and while time has moved forward and our family has grown, that loss is still part of how I got here.

Andi came after that loss, and I think one of the things pregnancy after loss taught me is that joy and grief don’t necessarily replace one another. They can exist beside each other.

You can be incredibly grateful for the baby in your arms and still remember the baby you never got to meet.

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and I’m thinking of every family carrying that kind of love and loss, whether it happened recently or years ago. 🤍

If you ever need a safe place to share, you’re always welcome to message me.

When I’m assessing a child for retained primitive reflexes, I’m looking at the whole picture, not one isolated behaviour...
09/28/2026

When I’m assessing a child for retained primitive reflexes, I’m looking at the whole picture, not one isolated behaviour.

Things like movement, posture, coordination, developmental history and how their body responds to certain positions or movements can all give me more context.

The signs can vary a lot depending on which reflex is retained and how strongly it’s showing up. That’s why things like poor concentration, bedwetting, nail biting or certain movement patterns don’t automatically point to one specific reflex on their own.

If a retained reflex does seem to be part of the picture, what we do next depends on the child and the reflex involved.

That might include specific exercises at home, in-clinic care, or a combination of both.

Have a question about retained primitive reflexes? Let me know.

This return to work has looked really different than it did after Colby, and it feels like a good thing.After my first m...
09/18/2026

This return to work has looked really different than it did after Colby, and it feels like a good thing.

After my first mat leave, I felt immense pressure to get back and ramp my hours up. The clinic was in a different place, our paediatric coverage was less, and I felt like there were patients I needed to be there for.

This time, it’s been slower.

And truthfully, I’m really liking my roughly 10-hour sweet spot.
I go into the clinic for a few hours, I get to keep that clinician part of my brain going, I am able to be fully present for those few hours, and then I still get a lot of time with my girls.

Right now, I don’t feel like I need to race back to what my schedule looked like before Andi.

Could I fill more hours? Likely. Will there be another season where I want to? Definitely.

But this season feels so good right now.

I think I’m learning that returning to work after having a baby doesn’t necessarily have to mean working your way back to exactly what you were doing before. I also have to be honest with myself that there is a lot of things I have to get done behind the scenes to keep running smoothly.

If you’ve gone back to work after having kids, did your idea of the “right” workload change too?

I fear I’ve lost the ability to just casually watch a baby move. 😂My paediatric chiropractor brain is always taking note...
09/15/2026

I fear I’ve lost the ability to just casually watch a baby move. 😂

My paediatric chiropractor brain is always taking notes.

To be clear, I’m not sitting at the park trying to diagnose everyone’s children, I am too busy trying to keep an eye on Colby running around.

I’ve just spent enough years assessing infant development, crawling, gross motor milestones and movement patterns that these are the things I naturally notice now.

Movement gives us so much information about how a baby’s body and nervous system are developing.

Once you know what you’re looking at, it’s really hard to turn that part of your brain off.

Parents, what’s something from your job that you catch yourself noticing everywhere you go?

I didn’t expect loving their relationship to sting a little.Because Andi needs me so much right now, Colby has become SU...
09/09/2026

I didn’t expect loving their relationship to sting a little.

Because Andi needs me so much right now, Colby has become SUCH a Dad’s girl.
And I genuinely love it.

I love their relationship. I love hearing her ask for Dad. I love that my husband gets to have this season with her.

And then she started saying things like, “No, I only want to nap with Dad.”

Every. Single. Day.

And I was like… oh.

I miss you.

It wasn’t jealousy exactly. It was more realizing that because so much of my physical time and attention has naturally gone to Andi, I felt like I was missing little pieces of my relationship with Colby.

So one day when my husband was working, I decided we were having a yes day.

I wasn’t going to stress if the dishes didn’t get done.

I wasn’t going to care if the house was a gong show.

She told me she wanted to learn how to scooter, so we went to Canadian Tire, found one 50% off — thank God 😂 — and scootered for a couple of hours.

Then we bought wrapping paper for her friend’s birthday present, picked out Dad’s birthday gift and got ice cream.

Nothing groundbreaking happened.

I just got to hang out with my girl.

And I think I needed it as much as she did.

Motherhood is weird like that. You can be so happy that your child needs you a little less and simultaneously want them to need you just a tiny bit more.

Can anyone else relate?

Earlier is not automatically better when it comes to infant development.I know it’s easy to get excited when your baby d...
09/04/2026

Earlier is not automatically better when it comes to infant development.

I know it’s easy to get excited when your baby does something ahead of schedule.

“They skipped crawling and went straight to standing!”
“They barely rolled and now they’re trying to crawl!”

Sometimes that is just the way that particular baby develops and there is usually some type of tension, poor range of motions to impact that certain skill. But clinically, I’m also interested in the movements that happened before the big exciting milestone.

Rolling, getting into sitting, kneeling, crawling, pulling to stand — these aren’t just boxes we want babies to check off. Each one gives the brain and body another opportunity to practise coordination, weight shifting, using both sides of the body and figuring out how to move through space.

When a baby skips something, I’m not immediately thinking, Something is wrong. But I’m also not automatically thinking, Amazing, they’re advanced.

I get curious.

What did their movement look like leading up to this?
Did they find another way to get where they wanted to go?
Are they using both sides similarly?
What opportunities did their body get along the way?

Because when it comes to development, I care a lot less about winning the milestone race and a lot more about what their body learned getting there.

Save this if you’re currently in the milestone-watching stage.

I think Andi’s birth is such a good example of why I ask so many questions about birth history in clinic.As her mom, I l...
08/28/2026

I think Andi’s birth is such a good example of why I ask so many questions about birth history in clinic.

As her mom, I look back on her delivery and feel incredibly grateful for how it went.

As a chiropractor, I also know that “everything went well” doesn’t necessarily tell me everything about what her body experienced getting here.

Those two perspectives don’t compete with each other. If anything, becoming a mom has made me even more curious about the details.

Have questions about how birth can affect a baby’s body? Drop it in the comments or send me a DM.

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