Dr. Pierce,
We…read morewelcomed a beautiful baby girl into our lives almost two months ago, after years of arduous fertility treatments. FINALLY, our dreams came true. About a month after she was born we noticed things weren't as smooth sailing as we'd hoped and she'd go through hours upon hours of crying spells. We changed her formula, visited the pediatrician, added probiotics, used every infant anti-gas medicine we could find and it just kept getting worse. Our Pediatrician said "you daughter has colic and it usually ends at 3 months so just ride it out". Ride it out, she said.
This beautiful, daughter of mine was so unhappy, so often, I started to feel helpless and lose my joy...which in and of itself is a scary thing to admit. If she wasn't sleeping (which wasn't very often) she was crying, if she wasn't crying she was eating. The crying was incessant, screeching, painful sobs and all you could do was keep trying to soothe, and at times, cried right along with her.
My husband was a rock and helped relieve me when I thought I might go crazy, but eventually he had to go back to work. He'd find me at the end of the day, still in my PJ's, completely disheveled...and of course, a screaming baby in my arms. After hours of online research we decided to take her to Dr. Pierce. We drove two hours to the Pierce Clinic of Chiropractic and humbly walked through the door, cradling our screaming child.
Dr. Pierce emanated confidence and tranquility while he found the issue, and so gently adjusted her. It took all of 2 minutes, not including the generous explanation of what he was going to do, how he'd do it and how it would allow her body to heal itself. We could tell, were in good hands and so was she.
She slept the whole way home, and after a bottle she fell asleep for 5 straight hours, which was a first. Our Everly woke up a different child. We were astounded, just completely speechless. Under all of the crying was a baby smiling for the first time, recognizing her parents, reaching for her toys and making the sweetest coo's I've ever heard. She was HAPPY! She slept deeper, longer and more peacefully, she had this whole personality and we were meeting her for the first time. She never stopped making milestones, I was just getting robbed of them. We can't wait for her to wake up now, because when she opens those big brown eyes, she smiles and the world is her playground.
Dr. Pierce gave us more than a happy baby that day, he gave us our dream back. Thank you and thank God for you.
Your loyal patients, Mcguiness fam.
P.s. Attached picture is her one week follow up. Holding her adjustment and happy as a clam!