I'm always looking for new allergy-friendly recipes that are healthy and easy. And these are my 4 favorite blogs to browse!
My Favorite Allergy-Friendly Food Blogs
Category: Becoming Allergy Parents
Getting My Daughter Skin Tested
I was so nervous. I knew we needed to get allergy testing done for my daughter, but I was concerned it would hurt her. I didn't know what to expect; I just thought there would be lots of needles and pain for my daughter. In reality, it went way, way better than expected. Here's what the skin test was like for us.
Eczema Babies + Crying All Night
Becoming Allergy Parents: Part 1. It seemed like all my friend's babies were sleeping through the night without any trouble, and here I was, hoping for even two hours of sleep at a time. "Let her cry through it," my friends would say. But I knew something was wrong. I knew her pain and discomfort cry. I wasn't going to let her just cry through that.
The Epipen Incident
Becoming Allergy Parents: Part 2. Her whole face got puffy and her eye started swelling up. "Maybe some humus got in her eye," my mom said, so I brought her upstairs and jumped in the shower with her. And then she stopped crying...because she started having trouble breathing. It was so scary that it felt like my life was moving in slow motion. It felt like a year was passing even though all this happened in approximately 5-10 minutes.
Meal Time Panic + Why This Blog
Becoming Allergy Parents: Part 3. Slowly my daughter improved. But I kept panicking. The stress was non-stop. Every time a meal rolled around, I would panic again. It seemed that dairy, soy, sesame and nuts were in literally everything!
That Allergy Mama 