When Dr. Stephanie Canale, a family physician at UCLA Medical Center, discovered her three-month-old daughter stopped putting on weight and ceased having bowel movements, despite getting enough milk, she was confused and concerned about the cause.
Canale wasn’t finding the answers she sought and knew she needed to test her breast milk in order to figure out the issue, but there were no resources available. Later on, after her daughter developed spina bifida, Canale discovered she had iron-deficiency anemia and hereditarily low B-12 levels. She would continually question how different things could have been had she known this about herself sooner.
