The parent outsourced their thought processing to the groupthink of a Facebook mom-group and never gave it a second thought.

In my due date/birth/parenting group* , the common response to anyone mentioning that their child is plagued by gas, writhing discomfort credited to gas or constipation, or constipation, is one of two things – chiropractor or probiotics. Mind you, my child isn’t even as old as an infant, they are new born new born new born. Kids at that age just have digestive issues because it is the only body system that hasn’t been used in utero so it has to work the kinks out land-side. But given that the comments are overwhelmingly in favor of these two absolutely awful choices** because we who follow science-based parenting have fled the group to save our brain beans by not spending every hour of every day countering the essential oil mommies, I can see where a truly bewildered new parent who doesn’t know how to vet credibility might conclude that a seemingly unanimous response means it is the right thing to do.

Now, I still am struggling with how, if you’ve had a child and have a pediatrician, you might not know how to vet credibility. Seems obvious to me that the one who went to med school is credible. But the world has all kinds.

So yes, I do suspect that your reasoning is the answer.

*I don’t know what to call it. It started out as a due date bump-buddies group when I first learned I was pregnant and has evolved now that the children are born.

**For the lurking parents or parents-to-be who are skeptical about the claim I casually tossed out: Chiropractic at best does nothing but is a parental placebo and at worst can permanently injure the child. Nothing but milk or formula is supposed to be given to a child before 4 months of age lest there be risks of life threatening infection as seen in the parent article.