An RMT by trade, a mother by night, it was a decade ago that Bonnie Peters developed a very specific, successful intervention for giving parents and their children relief from a very common yet complicated illness known as colic.
Coming from a unique familial background, Bonnie's Grandmother used the same techniques and practiced the same abdominal massage for colicky babies in her small village in Russia where she was also a bone-setter/midwife for the village.
With Bonnie's education and training in British Columbia (a Province that maintains the highest standards of practice in the world) at the West Coast College of Massage Therapy she had earned her degree, and she embarked on what would provide solace to the little one's and relief to the mothers.
With that in mind, she capsulated her program of colic massage relief to train parents on ways that soothe the infants body, by releasing pain and tenseness in the abdomen.
Bonnie is dedicated to treating infants in pain and helping the parents who are desperately trying to help their child. By following her instruction she will teach you how to stop colic and let you have a chance to bond with your baby.
So not only was she seeing patients herself, she was able to pass the knowledge and techniques to the parents, so that they too could be part of the process and provide immediate treatment when the need arose.
Because it would be required to individually treat and teach individuals, and there were far more patients to treat than one could possibly manage, she created a DVD that is now available for downloading online on her web-site www.colic-remedy.com for the price of $19.99 cdn plus taxes.
Within a few short minutes of reviewing the footage, the results can be seen by witnessing what was a crying infant become a cooing happy baby. You as a parent can be viewing the video yourself while gently utilizing the techniques to calm the afflicted baby.
It's a holistic based approach and can be learned during the time you are viewing the footage and giving immediate comfort from the manifestations that colic puts on the newborn.
With years of practice behind her Bonnie Peters, RMT trained at one of the elite massage therapy training schools, and her DVD garnered the endorsement of the Massage Therapy Association of BC It won a literary/film award for editors choice and 4 stars.
Her practice is based in Chilliwack and she is currently accepting new patients.