Apple Tree Osteopaths was built around a simple idea: that babies, children and postnatal women benefit from care from practitioners who have chosen to specialise — and made it their specialism, not a part of a broader practice.
Felicity and Antonietta between them hold postgraduate qualifications across paediatric osteopathy, women's health, infant feeding, scar therapy, reflex integration and more.
But qualifications only tell part of the story. What they share — and what shapes every appointment — is a genuine interest in the whole picture. Not just the immediate concern that brought you in.
Almost fifteen years ago, Felicity was sitting in a breastfeeding support training when something clicked — and it has informed much of her clinical focus since.
The advice being given was good. "Nipple to nose." "Wait for a wide mouth." But she kept thinking: what about the babies who couldn't do it, no matter how precisely their mother tried? The ones whose position in the womb, or the way they were born, had left tensions in their body that made latching genuinely difficult. Position and attachment advice didn't always resolve what she was seeing. She began exploring what else might be contributing.
That question sent her down a long road. Much of the knowledge she was looking for didn't exist in any structured form — the field was too new. So she drew on her clinical experience and research to build it herself, and went on to contribute to postgraduate teaching in infant feeding for osteopaths in the UK.
At Apple Tree Osteopaths, Felicity works with babies from the newborn days through to older children — looking at movement patterns, comfort, primitive reflexes and body organisation as connected aspects of early development.
She is also the author of Worry-Free Weaning and leads the Complex Feeding Clinic at Princes Risborough. She holds a Diploma in Paediatric Osteopathy and additional qualifications in infant feeding, tongue-tie, scar therapy, and orofacial and primitive reflex integration, and is registered with the General Osteopathic Council.
Felicity also founded @BabyPathway on Instagram — because she wanted more families to know that signs that something may not feel quite right with their baby's comfort, movement or settling are worth exploring from a structural and neurological perspective. That parental instinct is usually picking up on something real. And that those worries may be worth exploring further.
If you're a parent who keeps being told everything is fine — but it doesn't feel fine — you're in the right place.
Antonietta trained at the British School of Osteopathy and has spent her career building specialist expertise in two areas — with paediatrics at the heart of her practice.
She holds a Diploma in Paediatric Osteopathy from the Osteopathic Centre for Children — the leading postgraduate qualification in this field in the UK — and sees babies and children at Berkhamsted and Princes Risborough. Her work spans newborns in their earliest weeks through to older children, and she brings the same careful, unhurried attention to every session regardless of age or presentation.
Antonietta also holds a Diploma in Women's Health Osteopathy from the Molinari Institute and is a certified Scar Therapist. She leads the Mummy MOT and C-section MOT appointments across the practice, and has extended her scar work through training in photobiomodulation — a low-level laser therapy used in the context of supporting tissue recovery, available at Berkhamsted.
Her postgraduate qualifications in both paediatrics and women's health mean she can support the whole family journey — from pregnancy and birth through to babies and children.
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Osteopathy is a complementary healthcare profession regulated by the General Osteopathic Council. Treatment is not a substitute for medical care. If you have concerns about your health, please consult your GP or appropriate healthcare professional.