WARNING: This isn't another parenting podcast
Decoded: The First Year - is the podcast for parents feeling overwhelmed by baby milestones, sleep struggles and conflicting advice.
Hosted by Dr SCL - a chiropractor, dad and nervous system translator, each episode helps you understand what’s really going on in your baby’s body and brain through DECODING the science of neurodevelopment and nervous system health into practical insights you can actually use without mansplaining, guilt or fear - all from a dad who gets it and a clinician who listens more than he lectures.
Decoded: The First Year | Episode 58 | Reflux: What the Script Misses | Dr SCL
Silent reflux. All babies will vomit after a feed, it’s just a little “spit up”. Probably just gas. Projectile vomiting. They’ll grow out of it.If your baby is arching their back during feeds, pulling off the breast screaming, refusing a bottle they were taking happily an hour ago, or just persistently uncomfortable in a way nobody can quite pin down — you've probably heard some version of those phrases.Maybe you've been given a medication. Maybe you’ve been told to stop breast feeding.Maybe you've been told to thicken the feeds. Maybe you've been told to hold on because it will pass.Today I want to give you what you almost certainly haven't been given: the nervous system explanation for why some babies experience reflux — and why the standard script is missing a significant part of the picture.
30 Sept 2026
Decoded: The First Year | Episode 57 | Colic Isn't Crying - It's a Nervous System Event | Dr SCL
Three hours of crying. Every evening. For weeks.
And every professional you've spoken to has said some version of the same thing: "It's colic. There's nothing you can do. It passes."
And they're right that it passes.
But the "nothing you can do" part? That's where I have a massive problem.
Having been a chiropractor who has been in the room with way too many parents struggling with sleepless nights and an distressed child, I know there can be nothing more soul destroying than being told there is nothing you can do, cross you fingers and hope it passes soon.
Because there's a reason colic happens when it does. There's a reason it resolves when it does. And there's a reason it affects some babies far more severely than others. That reason is one hundred percent nervous system.
So today — no more "just wait it out." Let's actually decode this.
23 Sept 2026
Decoded: The First Year | Episode 56 | Why Your Baby Has "Wind" That Won't Shift | Dr SCL
You've done everything.
You've been trying for a burp for twenty minutes.
You’ve bounce around, patted on the back…nothing.
Your mother said to try the bicycle legs. Your mother-in-law said to try the tiger-in-the-tree hold, plus the belly rubs, plus the walk-and-pat.
You've watched six different videos.
You've tried three positions.
And still — nothing. Or it shifts for a moment, and then comes straight back.
Your baby is uncomfortable. You're exhausted. And no one has actually explained to you why some babies have wind that just won't budge — while other babies seem to move it without a second thought.
Today we're going to fix that. Because the answer isn't in a better technique. It all starts in your baby's nervous system.
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