Colic Clinic at Baby Steps NE

Multidisciplinary Holistic Colic Clinic

A premier clinic designed to get to the bottom of your baby’s colic symptoms. Our highly specialized, experienced clinical team is ready to assess your baby from head to toe to help solve the puzzle of their discomfort and crying. Whether their symptoms are caused by feeding difficulties, allergies, dysregulation, sleep challenges or anything else, our team will support you in identifying what tools and strategies will benefit your family. 

Our unique team includes lactation specialists; dietitians specializing in allergies, gastrointestinal discomfort, and reflux; Occupational Therapists specializing in regulation and development; and Speech Language Pathologists specializing in feeding. Additional specialties include


Additional Specialties:

  • Craniosacral Fascial Therapy

  • Infant Massage

  • Reflex Integration

Colic & Regulation: A dysregulated nervous system can present as colic or excessive irritability. Infants may present with fussiness, irritability, and difficulty soothing.

  • A dysregulated nervous system can be related to:

    • 4th trimester changes 

    • Traumatic Delivery

    • Overstimulation

    • GI upset

    • Sleep disruption

Colic and Feeding: Feeding difficulties can impact colic and baby may present with increased crying and agitation due to hunger or discomfort

  • Feeding difficulties may be related to:

    • Poor Latch

    • Increased Air Intake

    • Poor Oral Motor Skills

    • Over or underfeeding

    • Inefficient feeding

    • Tongue Tie

Colic & GI/Allergy: GI distress and allergies are both possible contributions to infant colic

  • Maternal diet for the breastfed infant, aerophagia, imbalance of healthy bacteria in the gut can all cause symptoms of abdominal pain and distress.


Who would benefit from seeing our Colic Clinic:

  • Babies who are difficult to soothe

  • Babies who appear frequently irritable or fussy

  • Babies who struggle with GI symptoms (reflux, gas)

  • Babies who don’t sleep well

  • Babies with feeding difficulties

  • Families struggling with baby’s temperament

Available in RI & MA