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How to Help Food Allergy Families This Holiday: 5 Simple Tips
The holidays can be a very stressful time. All the get-togethers, school parties, and family celebrations can be overwhelming for anyone. The hardest part for food allergy parents is that all these events revolve around food—whether it’s gingerbread houses, potlucks, hot chocolate, special treats, or crafts. Food allergy parents handle this in many ways. I… Read more
Taking Flight: Theo’s First Adventure Toward Food Freedom
In less than three days, we flew all the way from Illinois to California and back. It was as exhausting as it sounds, but we made it. We officially began Theo’s journey to food freedom and had a little fun along the way. Leading up to this trip, I had a lot of anxiety, especially… Read more
When Hope Was Fading: A New Door Opens for Theo’s Food Freedom
When our children are diagnosed with food allergies, we are told many things by different doctors, and all the advice seems to contradict one another. One doctor says it can’t be food allergies and refuses to run tests. The next doctor tests for over 30 foods and informs me he is highly allergic to some… Read more
From Reaction to Reality: Our New Normal
As healing as it is to share our experience with Theodore, writing about it made me relive all these moments. Reliving them brought back all the emotions and feelings in full force. From the hopelessness of not knowing what was wrong with him, to the constant worry about what to feed him, and then the… Read more
The Day Everything Changed: Our Wake-Up Call to Food Allergies
Let’s fast forward to May 2021. Theo was 18 months old, and I had just had baby #3. I was in a full postpartum fog, just weeks into my maternity leave. Our daycare had unexpectedly closed, and I was home with three kids: a 3-year-old, an 18-month-old, and a 4-week-old. As life goes with a… Read more
Navigating the Allergy Maze: Our Early Struggles introducing foods
Finding the right formula was tricky, but the real challenges began when we started introducing solid foods. With our oldest, it was fun and exciting to let him eat solid foods, but with Theodore, it was scary and brought a lot of anxiety. After his blood work, we were told to avoid peanuts, milk, wheat,… Read more
Let’s Start from the beginning
Welcome to Theodore’s Path to Food Freedom This may be the first step In our path to freedom of food allergies but it has been quite a long road that led us to this. So to begin this blog I think it’s important to start from the beginning. Shorty after Theodore was born we knew… Read more