Katie's First Months

I pretty much believed the doctor. I was so utterly and totally exhausted that only a small corner of my brain sounded the alarm that something was wrong with Katie.

Luckily, Eric hated the job and we didn't fit into the small town where there was no diversity and everybody's ambition in life was to go work at the local factory with their parents. We also knew it was a good excuse to find another doctor for our miserable little five-month-old. We decided that we needed to go back to Washington, D.C.

The minute we got back, I called a former co-worker whose child had multiple medical problems and disabilities. I asked for the name of her pediatrician and immediately made an appointment for two weeks later.

A couple days later, Katie went on a complete hunger strike. She refused to take a drop of breast milk, formula or cereal. She would shut her mouth and turn her whole body away.

Beth Anderson will tell us what finally happened to Katie, and how her experience led to the establishment of reflux.org and Anderson's writing of The Reflux Book.