Primal Child ♥ With Annie Adamson and Naomi Miller
Primal Child Microbiome Reset™
a 90-day gut and nervous system reset for ages 0 to 6
Maybe your baby came early. Maybe your baby was born by cesarean, spent those first days under hospital lights, or needed a round of antibiotics before six months old. Every one of those was the right call in the moment, and every one of them leaves a mark on two things at once: the gut and the nervous system.
That is why the sleep, the stools, the skin, and the colds can all show up together, and why they never seem to respond to one fix at a time. Nothing is wrong with your child. Their body just had a rougher start than it was built for, and it can be rebuilt. That is what the next 90 days are for.
is this your child?
This is for the child whose body has had a harder start, through prematurity, cesarean birth, NICU or hospital time, early antibiotics, or an illness that knocked things sideways. A mother knows when something is just not right. We have to trust that. It is the most reliable lab result we have.
Here's the thing...
The gut, the brain, and the nervous system are one conversation. When the gut lining is inflamed, the body stays on alert, and a body on alert does not sleep, does not digest, and shows it on the skin. The same gut is where most of your child's immune system lives, which is why the baby who can't digest is so often the baby who can't shake a cold. Treating the eczema, the sleep, and the stools as three separate problems is why nothing has held.
This is also where potty learning lives. A toddler who is constipated is holding, and a child who is holding cannot feel the signal that says it is time. Loose stools do the opposite and turn every day into a string of misses. A lot of the stalled potty learning we see starts in the gut, not in the child, and it moves again once the belly does.
Between us we have more than thirty-five years of clinical practice, and we have both lived this at home with our own children. We know what it is to be handed an answer that does not reach the root, and we know what it takes to find the one that does. So we stop guessing and look, and then we rebuild from the inside, with real food, the right herbs, and a nervous system that is allowed to settle.
What's inside the 90 days
Step one
Microbiome testing and analysis
We start by looking, not guessing. A Tiny Health stool test, done at home with a swab of a dirty diaper or a wipe, sequences the entire gut and shows us what is actually living there. In a baby or young child that picture matters more than at any other time of life, because the microbiome is still being built, and what is missing or overgrown now shapes the immune system, the skin, the sleep, and the brain for years. We see whether the beneficial strains a child this age should have are present, what has taken over in their absence, whether yeast or unfriendly bacteria have gained ground, how diverse the whole system is, and the markers tied to eczema, allergy, and inflammation. Naomi and Annie read the results together and walk you through them in plain words, so you finally know what is going on inside your child and exactly where to begin.
Food
A GAPS-informed nutrition plan
Not a diet. A sequence. We start with the broths, soups, and soft-cooked foods that calm and seal the gut lining, pull out what is feeding the inflammation, and bring foods back in the right order so the gut can handle them. Ferments come in slowly. Picky eating gets its own plan, because a child who refuses food is usually a child whose gut does not want it yet. If your baby is still on milk, we work with that. You get the food lists, the recipes, and the daily rhythm, written for a real kitchen and a real family.
Herbs
A custom Chinese herbal formula
This is the part that changes the game. Naomi is a master Chinese herbalist, and instead of handing you something off a shelf, we read your child's pattern, the sleep, the stools, the skin, the temperament, everything that is going on, and she writes a formula for exactly that. It is gentle enough for a baby and specific enough to actually move things. Getting a custom formula made for your child is pretty radical, and your child's first formula is included in the reset.
Regulation
A nervous system and sleep plan
The belly cannot settle while the body is on alert, so we work on both. You learn to read your child's signals, what to do when they wake in the night, how to build a daily rhythm that tells the body it is safe, and the small practices, touch, movement, breath, that bring a child down from high alert. Your own nervous system is part of this, because a child borrows calm from the mother holding them. Sleep deepens as the gut heals and the body stops bracing, and we show you how to protect it once it comes.
Potty learning
Potty learning, included
If your child is a baby or a toddler, we help you get them out of diapers inside this container, and it is part of the package. Potty learning lives in the gut and the nervous system, so we fold it into the plan once the belly is moving. And if there is any withholding, regression, or fear around the potty, we look at that too and it gets addressed as part of the reset.
Every week
Unlimited private coaching
A 15-minute call with us every week, booked whenever you need it, for the full 90 days. Most containers give you two calls and leave you to figure out the rest. You get us every week.
Any day
Unlimited messaging with Annie and Naomi
You get a private channel on Voxer, a free voice and text messaging app, where you can leave us a message any time, day or night, as often as you need. We listen and respond during our work windows, and as things change with your child, we adjust the plan right there in the channel.
The whole picture
Lab review
Bring us your child's bloodwork and any other labs you already have and we read them next to the gut results, so the plan reflects the whole picture.
Yours to keep
Your complete 90-day plan
This is what you walk away with. A full written plan for your child, built from their own test results, with the recipes, guidebooks, documents, and videos for every step, so you never have to remember what we said on a call. It also includes full access to Mama's Medicine Chest, Annie's home herbal course for coughs, fevers, and sick weeks.
Meet your team
Annie Adamson
Clinical vitalist herbalist, functional nutritionist, nervous system educator
Annie has practiced clinically with mothers and children for close to twenty years. She is a clinical family herbalist trained in the vitalist tradition, a functional nutritionist, a somatic practitioner, a yoga therapist, and a nervous system educator. Her training includes the GAPS protocol, homeopathy, anthroposophical medicine, pediatric Shonishin with Bob Quinn, Weston A. Price nutrition, and pelvic floor therapy under Tami Lynn Kent.
She founded Primal Child™, Primal Potty Training™, Primal Medicine™, and Primal Vinyasa®, and co-owned Yoga Union Community Wellness Center in Portland for nearly twenty years. Her potty learning method is endorsed by Doman International. On this reset she builds the food plan, the nervous system and sleep plan, and the potty plan, and coaches you through all three.
As a mother
Annie has four children, with a child in every decade of her life, and has been a mother for twenty-six years. Her son Tabor struggled with chronic hives at two years old, and then an anxiety that took over his days. The answers she was given did not reach the root. She healed and sealed his gut with the GAPS protocol, worked with Chinese and Western herbs, and moved the family to the country so his nervous system could settle. He healed, not managed, healed, and at sixteen he is one of the most settled, grounded people she knows. She is also raising a toddler who was born premature, so she knows the sensitivities that come with an unplanned hospital birth, and she knows a hard start is a starting point, not a verdict.
Naomi C. Miller, LAc, MAcOM, DiplOM
Classical Chinese medicine practitioner and clinical herbalist
Naomi is a nationally board-certified acupuncturist and herbalist with more than fifteen years in clinical practice, the founder of Solum Wellness, and the former clinical director of Fig Holistic Medicine in Salem, Oregon. She holds a Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine and completed six years of advanced mentorship in Classical Chinese herbalism, with further training in channel theory and palpation, pulse diagnosis, and Japanese meridian therapy.
Her clinical focus is complex, multi-system cases: digestive and autoimmune conditions, chronic inflammation, and nervous system dysregulation. She reads functional labs, including GI testing, hair mineral analysis, hormone metabolites, and environmental toxicology, alongside the pulse and channel findings of Chinese medicine, and writes individualized herbal formulas from that picture. She has used the GAPS protocol in practice for years. On this reset she reviews every lab and writes your child's formula.
As a mother
Naomi has been a mother for twenty-eight years, to a daughter and a son. Her now adult daughter lives with a medically induced brain injury, and Naomi has spent years walking her through deep healing, one careful step at a time, with the same medicine she practices. She knows the sleepless nights, the sick weeks, and every layer of motherhood in between. She is also a grandmother of three, and has helped raise them because of her daughter's injury. What she brings to your family is the thing she learned at home: a body is never finished healing, and a mother who understands it is the most powerful person in the room.
Annie and Naomi have been friends for more than twenty years, and have run health resets together for a long time. When they sit down with your child's results, you get two sets of trained eyes that have been reading bodies side by side for decades.
What you can expect
Over the 90 days, the belly settles first. Stools become consistent, the bloating and the straining ease, and a child who was refusing food starts eating. Then sleep deepens, because a body that is digesting can finally rest. The skin calms as the gut heals underneath it. The colds get shorter and further apart, and the one that used to turn into croup or an ear infection runs its course and leaves.
You will see color come back into your child's cheeks and stamina come back into their days. A nervous system that lived on high alert comes down, so there is less fussing, less tension, and more of the child you knew was in there. If potty learning had stalled, it moves again once the belly does.
We tested, we read the results, and we built the plan from your child's own body. You will know that body in a way you never have, and you will have a map you can keep following long after the 90 days end.
in their words
Felicia, mama to Simon
“My baby got an upper respiratory infection and giving him tulsi tea, bone broth, and the natural tools Annie shares did wonders for him. I was able to nurse him back to health naturally.”
Simon struggled with one upper respiratory sickness after another. Together we used Tiny Health gut testing, individualized Chinese herbal formulas, and ancestral nourishment to guide his care. Today Simon is thriving, Felicia makes his medicinal meat stock and nutrient-dense meals herself, and his daycare provider now asks her for nutrition advice. Her latest update: “I'm feeling really confident as a mom.”
Samantha, mama to a 2.5 year old
“I've been working 1-1 with Annie since my 2.5 year old was about 6 months old. She has been an incredible mentor and friend through every milestone, healing gut imbalances and first foods to early pottying into toddlerhood. The Collective has been a blessing now for me as mom, providing so much depth and tending for myself so I can be resourced and present as a full time SAHM.”
the first step is a conversation
We take a small number of families at a time.
Book a free 15 minute connection call. You tell us what is going on with your child, we tell you plainly whether this reset is the right fit, and if it is, we walk you through the investment and the payment plan on the call.
No pressure, no pitch. Just two practitioners listening to you talk about your child.
Your child's body is not malfunctioning.
It is communicating, and it has been for a while. Ninety days from now you'll be able to read it.
With rhythm and trust,
Annie and Naomi
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