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CHAPTER FOUR

Kelly’s Story

When our first son, Kelly, was born, Jonathan and I thought for sure his constant screaming after eating was a sign of chronic colic. Let me rephrase that: Everyone around Kelly for any length of time told us, “He has colic!” Since I believed that after the first three to six months, colic should no longer be a major issue for any baby, I became convinced it had to be something else, but I didn’t have a clue as to what.

Jonathan would, literally, walk Kelly all around the house every night and, sometimes, even during the day, to help my son fall asleep. Jonathan and I didn’t get much sleep, either, the first year and a half of Kelly’s life. Our son was always screaming, crying; his pain was always pitiful and obvious, at such times, in his eyes and on his face.

Until finding out about Celiac Disease, I didn’t connect the dots that put Kelly’s eating of gluten as the real cause of his screaming, crying, and hurting.

Only after I read about Celiac Disease did I notice how twenty minutes after Kelly ate something with gluten in it he would begin screaming and his tears would start to flow—as regular as clockwork.

I’d feed Kelly a bowl of cereal that had barley in it, and twenty minutes later on the dot (I timed it), he started crying and screaming. I fed him Gerber® Baby Rice Cereal (Gluten-Free), and nothing happened. That was enough for both Jonathan and me to say, “No more gluten for Kelly!”

Something else that we didn’t know until after it was too late to do anything about it (at least as far as Kelly was concerned), is that gluten is passed through breast milk. I ate a lot of gluten while pregnant with and while nursing Kelly, having had no idea that the gluten in my breast milk was what made him suffer so much pain twenty minutes after EACH AND EVERY time I nursed him.