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Hunter and I drove to Oakland Children's Hospital on Friday morning. No traffic, perfect directions, sleeping baby and 15 minutes early....I am not sure I have ever been this smooth since Hunter has been born.

We saw Dr. Hsia, pronounced like shaw. He listened to me. For 45 minutes we talked, Hunter coughed, spit up and wheezed perfectly on que. We came out with a plan of action. He believes that Hunter has two issues.

1. Acid Reflux. This was hard for me to believe at first due to how fat and chubby my son is....also he does not cry during or resist feeding like most reflux babies do. Hunter does have all the other signs of reflux, including reflux that actually soils the lungs.

2. Aspiration of Food. Every time Hunter eats or drinks he is aspirating a part of it into his lungs. This is the main cause of the wet cough.

Our course of action is a heavy duty antacid, an inhaler steroid and more tests. We are going to have a swallow study done to find out if he is in fact aspirating his food. Finally we are going to have a test performed to rule out Cystic Fibrosis. July 15 is when our check up is scheduled if we do not have any positive results then we will scope his airway and take a look at what is going on.

Thanks for all of your prayers on our road to a wheeze-less life.