Dr. Jen Gunter

And I ended up putting them on a soy formula, which now I wish in retrospect I hadn't done, but then I just stuck with it.

And, you know, also I went down the rabbit hole of, oh, he needed to be on this compounded medicine for reflux when, you know, it was the fact that his lower esophageal sphincter wasn't working well because of his cerebral palsy.

Like, you know, and so I bet I I I would say that I don't use this term lightly, but I would say that I got.

in my head about it in a bad way and was thinking, you know, well, should he have, you know, a, you know, a procedure to stop this?

Because I mean, you know, he's a year and he's like vomiting everywhere and going apneic and I've got to resuscitate.

I'm like, it's a big deal.

Maybe that was still when he was six months.

And

I fired off, I pulled every like, you know, who do I know at this university?

So I looked up who all the experts were.

And then I fired off emails to the medical centers of people who I knew.

So I could say, hey, this is Dr. Jen Gunter.

I'm friends with so-and-so.

You know, and I received this incredibly kind email back from somebody at the University of Michigan who was basically like, sounds like you are doing all the right stuff.

And she just said it in a way that spoke to me.

And

I know my kid's doctor said that to me, but I just didn't hear it.

You should have said it in a different way.

And that's when I thought, oh.

oh, why was, wait, why was it so hard to get this information?