My Personal Story

When my daughter Dawn was born, I was so thrilled to be a new mother. I wanted to do everything perfect! But, something was very wrong. My baby seemed to have problems with digesting her formula. The pediatrician suggested that I change formulas. Well, I changed her formula many times, but she became worst. She could not hold down any formula at all. She cried day and night. I also changed doctors, but there  didn't seem to be any solution. As the weeks went by, she lost weight, had projectile vomiting, and then, blood in her stool. I was in a desperate panic! I brought my baby girl to the hospital, and there they ran every kind of test possible. By now her life was in jeopardy. I was counting on medical science to find the answer. The only answer I received from the doctors was that her stomach lining must be torn up. I said, “Well, what do you need to do to fix this?” Their answer was “we don’t have an answer to that. Just bring her home, and when she is unable to drink water any longer, we will keep her alive intravenously!”  My next question was “then what?” Their answer was"we hope she will somehow recover!” THEY DID NOT HAVE AN ANSWER! My precious baby was dying, and there were no answers.

But then, as I was standing outside of the hospital, crying and praying for answers, an elderly black lady walked up to me an asked “what’s wrong honey?” I told her of my beautiful baby girl’s problem. She said to me “take your baby home and boil oatmeal with a lot of water. Then strain off the thick oatmeal water and mix it with a little Karo syrup for taste. Just give that to your baby, and she will be fine!” She smiled and walked away. How could that be the answer, when the doctors had no knowledge of it? I wasn’t sure this stranger knew what she was talking about. But when my husband told his mother what the lady had told us, his mother exclaimed "she’s right, that is what we used to do in Germany. All the older women did that when the babies had stomach problems." That was all the confirmation I needed. I gave my baby the oatmeal water, and she held it down. Within two weeks she was completely fine!

I could never get it out of my mind, that the doctors had no answer, but an elderly angel knew the natural remedy that saved my child from dying! I had a new respect for the so called “olden day remedies, or old wives tales.” There is a great wealth of truth and knowledge to them. That was the start of my interest in alternative medicine, and natural healing. Over the years I was amazed to experience that natural remedies actually cured the problem, but using drugs only  helped you live with the sickness, or temporarily fixed the problem! Without finding the cause of the illness, how can you really correct it? The only way to cure something is to eliminate the cause.