Chiropractic treatments and infant reflux

My son has struggled from what you would call "silent reflux" since he was about a week old. Well, ever since my milk came in actually. He is gaining weight just fine, actually is on the big side. He doesn't scream all hours of the night or anything. He just pukes. ALOT! I am to the point of desperation, mostly because there seems to be nothing I can do. I'm helpless. Everything I have done in the past just then causes him discomfort and makes the puking worse. I have tried feeding him propped up, making him sleep upright, diet change (my milk dropped tremendously) and the homeopathic medicine Nat phos 6x. They all made him worse.

I came across an article (can't find it again to link it sorry) but it talked about Chiropractic being a cure for infant reflux. So long story short, I decided to try it out. With my husbands permission of course :) Dr. Lisa Gehl was found at the website, www.icpa4kids.org  this website will show you Chiropractor's in your area that are qualified to practice on children. Let me say she was amazing. Not only did she spend time getting to know me and my children, I loved her demeanor with my baby. She talked sweetly to him, handled him gently, and explained everything before she did anything.

So come to find out his C1 was out of alignment, which is apparently very common. So she gently & slowly slipped it back in. Let's just say he did not like it one bit. But the puking stopped.. Well for a bit anyway. He ate twice, and no puking. But then I picked him up out of his car-seat and I heard a pop, I think his C1 popped back out because he immediately started puking ALOT. I wanted to cry. I was just hopping for a quick fix and he would be all better. I just have to remember that she did tell me it would take a few weeks before I seen a difference. Also as a massage therapist I do know that his muscles need to get loose and re-train to hold his bone in place instead of pulling it out of alignment. I have been gently massaging his neck trying to loosen his muscles, He doesn't care for that much either.

But he is better. He was almost rolling over from back to front, something that he had never been close to doing before.Go Benny Boy Go!! I will keep everyone posted on our progress as we continue with treatments. Please let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to help answer. Apparently Chiropractic treatments can help with ear infections as well. Who Knew?

 -The Conservative Hippie Momma