Recipes & Tips

Hello fellow allergy parents!

I have a bunch of resources for you – and more coming soon!

XOXO,
That Allergy Mama

Becoming an Allergy Parent

The following blog posts share our journey to discovering our daughter’s allergies. I hope they can encourage you, and maybe give you new ideas to try with your own family!

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…

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…

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…

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!