Colic Treatment Newport Beach

Colic describes prolonged, inconsolable crying in an otherwise healthy, well-fed and growing baby. It is exhausting, it is frightening for new parents, and it almost always resolves on its own by three to four months.

What Colic Treatment Newport Beach involves

A careful examination, an honest conversation, and treatment only where we find something mechanical. Colic Treatment Newport Beach families get here starts with history and assessment rather than with adjusting, and often ends with reassurance rather than a course of care.

What we look for

A baby who will only turn the head one way, who feeds noticeably better on one side, or who is uncomfortable in certain positions may have a genuine mechanical restriction, sometimes related to their position in late pregnancy or to the birth itself. That is something we can assess and gently address.

How gentle it actually is

The pressure used on an infant is about what you would use to test a ripe tomato, applied with a fingertip. Most babies sleep through it. There is no thrusting, no twisting and no sound.

What the evidence supports, and what it does not

The research on chiropractic for colic is mixed and much of it is weak. Some trials show a reduction in crying time; the better-controlled ones show much less, and blinded parent reporting narrows the effect considerably. We are not going to present it as an established treatment.

What we will always check first

That colic is the right explanation at all. Poor weight gain, vomiting, blood in the stool, fever, or a baby who is unusually floppy or unusually stiff are not colic and need a paediatrician, quickly. We ask about all of these, and a first visit that ends with us sending you to your doctor is a good outcome, not a wasted appointment.