Cracking the Code on Colic

Hi, moms and dads, Doctor Scott Haggerty.

And I want to take a few minutes here to talk

to you about something that so many parents are struggling with it

is colic.

And if you are a new parent and this

is hitting you right where you're living right now,

I want to give you a

10 or so minute presentation to talk to you about why this is happening

and what you need to know because moms and dads,

if this is your life and you're living with us on the daily basis,

then you absolutely know that this is where you need to be and we're gonna

get you answers to help you to understand why your child is dealing with colic.

But most importantly, what you can do because right now I know that you need hope

you need answers and you need action steps quickly

so you can know what to do about this.

I'm gonna start with the story.

So about a month or so ago, there was this little girl named Raven who came in,

sweet little girl, beautiful little princess.

Her mom dresses up in the prettiest little headbands every time you see her,

but she was having serious colic, I mean, crying all the time.

Mom was exhausted, couldn't put her down. Hardly ever slapped.

It was a really, really rough go for him.

Mom didn't know what to do.

Thankfully,

she actually knew us from a long time back when

we had taken care of her for something in her past

and she ended up deciding to go and bring her in knowing that

we work with all these types of issues constantly in our practice.

And she brought her in

and within a month's time, her colic is resolved.

It's been a massive change because she came in as a terrible feeder,

terrible sleeper, terrible pooper

after having a very difficult labor and delivery and having torn a colli

and in one month's time,

her colic is completely resolved and her quality of life is only getting

better as we're getting further and further along in her adjustive care plan.

Now, let's talk about what colic is because if you're living with this,

you need to know what you're looking for because if you're, you know,

trying to figure out what to do to help your child colic is very simply,

it's prolonged periods of uncontrollable crime, right?

Messes with sleep.

It can mess, it can affect development,

it can put the brain in a constant state of fight or flight and it is common.

One in four babies are going to have issues with colic to varying degrees.

Now,

let's talk about what we need to do here because moms today, ultimately,

it's gonna come down to understanding

that there are a number of different things that we

need to understand about the way that colic works.

Because if you're a parent, you've got some big challenges, right?

You're probably feeling pretty helpless, you're exhausted.

You know, something's wrong, don't know necessarily what to do about it.

And it only gets worse if you allow your child to cry it out,

which is what many people would recommend to do.

But this is what you're dealing with. Right? Intense crying, fussiness.

It's pretty predictable.

Baby gets all red, super rigid and stiff, arching, all kinds of stuff.

Oftentimes you're even seeing things like, um, you know, head banging,

you may be seeing things like, um,

their little faces are getting super red because

they're holding their breath all kinds of things.

And it's very distinct from when they're, you know,

just normal hunger pains when they're wanting to eat

or when the diapers are cha or need change.

You've got all these other things that are going

on that you need to understand that are happening

because colic is, is not one of these things where it's just a, um,

a simple set of symptoms.

You have to understand what is happening.

Colic can be very easily triggered by a number of different things,

but it is something that is a predictable thing that is

happening within the nervous system that is apparent needed to know about

in a nutshell.

It is an overstressed, very tense,

central nervous system and autonomic nervous system.

The number one most common

case history finding in Children that are dealing with issues with colic

is they had birth interventions or birth trauma.

And this is a big issue because if this is the what your child has gone through,

then you need to understand that this is

the situation that your child has gone through.

This big issue with a birth trauma that has created this thing called subluxation.

What is a subluxation? You might ask,

subluxation is something that results from stress in the nervous system.

Oftentimes relating to birth positioning

in

op positioning, birth trauma that causes a sub pathological, non pathological,

not a break, not a tear

to the, the the spinal column.

And as a result of that birth injury,

and oftentimes the accumulation of stress during the pregnancy,

that injury to the central nono

nervous system turns down the function of this

really important nerve called the vagus nerve.

The vagus nerve is a nerve

that regulates rest digest growth, development, healing.

It is the nerve that's not doing its job when your baby has colic.

It's not calming the central nervous system, it's not helping your baby to sleep.

It's not calming their G I it's not moving food through successfully.

It's the nerve that needs to be stimulated.

Well, if you've got a child with colic you're probably like doc get to the point.

How do I help my child who is dealing with this colic so I can get them to sleep finally.

Well, let me give you some answers.

Number one, you need to know what you're looking for and this becomes the problem.

If you've got a child that's dealing with colic.

If you don't know what the cause is, you don't know where to start. You're guessing

so many things that people will recommend using homeopathic and

you know, doing different types of nutritional changes,

their bandaids that oftentimes very ineffective

because they're going after a symptom

not getting to the root cause

we use these things here called thermal scans.

Thermal scans,

allow us to go and seeing what is happening at the level of the spinal cord.

Because where do all of the nerves come from that regulate your child's body,

the gut,

the G I

all things they come from the spinal cord.

This allows us to see what exactly is happening.

If you look at all these areas on the top graph,

those areas that are in red and green and blue,

those are all areas of abnormal activity.

Well, what I see as your chiropractor is I see a road map,

it tells me that you've got the green bar on the right at the top and the

red bar on the left that tells me there is torque on that baby's brain stem.

It tells me that all those areas are way

above normal and we need to adjust those areas,

get them moving.

So the brain could start to communicate and connect normally with the vagus nerve,

with the stomach, with the G I.

So we can begin calming down the nervous system.

We come down here a little bit further

and towards the middle of the graph, there's two great big red bars.

It shows t 18 90 10, lots of activity. Guess what? That's your baby's adrenal glands.

Those are the stress systems.

So those two areas there, right?

So the brain stem being affected and the whole pattern on the right side,

those are all patterns of stress that are

deep seated in this child's nervous system.

So what we need to do is we need

to begin unwinding that stress through gentle adjustments.

When we do gentle adjustments, they unwind that pattern,

that pattern, calms down and guess what you see with your baby

symptom improvement.

Like we saw with Raven,

the nervous system, calming down things getting better, better sleep,

better digestion,

seeing the symptoms progressively improve so that your

child's quality of life and in turn,

your quality of life can finally get better because you've gotten to the root cause,

which is the issues with the vagus nerve,

not working the way that it should because there's this underlying thing called dis

autonomia

disregulation of the autonomic because the nervous

system is locked into fight or flight.

When we start doing gentle adjustments. What we do is we activate the Vegas,

we opt the nervous system to calm down and you see better sleep, better, rest,

better digest and a calmer baby.

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