I wrote this Letter to the Editor in response to Shterny Farkash’s article on infant colic and navigating referrals, published in the Summer 2026 issue of N’shei Newsletter. Farkash describes her long and difficult search for answers for her colicky baby, moving through numerous practitioners and interventions, many of which brought little or temporary relief. She then offers mothers a roadmap for navigating those same types of specialists, therapies, and referrals more efficiently. My response below was published in the Tishrei 2026 issue.
I appreciated the sincerity in Shterny Farkash’s colic article, and I deeply empathize with any parent struggling through infant colic. I’ve been there. But as I read this account and the solutions offered, I couldn’t stop thinking of a flooding house. One person brings towels. Another brings buckets. Another redirects the water flow. Everyone may genuinely be helping in some way, but at some point, someone must ask: why is the house flooding in the first place?
What struck me most is that the article critiques the exhausting cycle of specialist-to-specialist symptom chasing, yet ultimately proposes a more compassionate and organized version of the same model. The problem was never that mothers lacked a guide through the maze. The problem is the maze itself: a system that treats a suffering infant as a collection of separate symptoms to be managed rather than pursuing the underlying imbalance that is driving them.
Too often, our community confuses palliation with healing. They are not the same. Putting buckets under a leak may protect the floor temporarily, but the flooding remains. In the same way, therapies may ease the expression of distress without resolving what is producing it. A classical homeopath identifies and treats the core issue the body is communicating through symptoms. Deep healing follows. I’ve seen this with my own children many times. I only wish someone had told me this as a young mother; it would have spared them needless suffering.
Mothers of colicky babies deserve to know that genuine root-cause healing exists. Not a better map through a broken system, but a way out of it entirely. Every suffering baby and exhausted mother deserves nothing less.
