06/25/2026
Postpartum is hard no matter what, but moms with a baby struggling with latch, colic, reflux, or gas are living a way more difficult postpartum experience.
Listening to your baby cry is hard. After only a few minutes of crying while you are trying everything, do you start to feel overwhelmed and the irrational thoughts of feeling like you aren’t a good enough mother creep in. It was the part of postpartum that shocked me the most after having my own baby, and I had a baby who really didn’t cry unless she needed something.
Now thinking about the moms that have babies that cry for hours, barely sleep, are constantly trying tummy massages and gas drops, or working through latch challenges. That feeling of being out of control is defeating, exhausting, and overwhelming. And these moms are told it is a phase and their baby will grow out of it so just hang tight.
Excuse me?! I feel it is unacceptable to tell a mom any form of this when in our office chiropractic care makes a huge difference.
We joke about the amount of blow outs that happen in the office (or the car) right after an adjustment, or smile through farts while they are getting adjusted. We celebrate with the moms that had a fussy baby walking in, and after getting adjusted their baby took the longest nap or had the best night of sleep. We live for the moms who realize they didn’t even think about their child’s witching hour because it didn’t happen when they used to watch the clock and feel themselves getting anxious as the clock neared their hard point. We get excited with the mom that was able to have a deep latch for the first time ever. This is commonplace in our office. Less tense and more comfortable babies, and an easier postpartum experience is the norm with chiropractic care so to let moms believe this is just something they have to just persevere through is insane.
Postpartum is vulnerable, hard, exhausting, and raw with emotion. Chiropractic care is a simple way to make it feel easier.