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This article is sponsored by Pull-Ups® When we first started potty training Kay I wanted to just push a button and it be done.  Why can’t children come fully potty trained, you know?  Obviously it doesn’t work that way, and while it’s not easy it can be a fun experience for both of you!  Thanks […]

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Finding a safe food for your child can be a challenge, finding a safe chocolate can be even more challenging for a child with food allergies.  Most chocolate contains soy, nuts, or processed around those allergens.  My daughter suffers from a food allergy called FPIES.

Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES) is not your typical food allergy where you would see hives, fast reaction, anaphylaxis, these are IgE-mediated.  FPIES is Non-IgE-mediated, meaning you can’t do skin/blood tests, it’s typically an internal manifestation however more people are saying their children also suffer some external symptoms like eczema.

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If you are visiting from Sweet T Makes Three and just learned how to make your own furniture polish without chemicals using Young Living Essential Oils, welcome!!  Are you sick of all the chemicals you use for your home, your family, and even on your baby?!  Being a first time mommy I knew I wanted to be a crunchy mom and make a lot of things on my own.  I’m going to show you How to Make Baby Wipes Chemical Free Using Essential Oils | Detox Your Home in the process also thanks to all these lovely bloggers I’ve paired up with!

Do you need to know how to feed a picky toddler?  Feeding a picky toddler hasn’t been easy for us, at least not in the beginning!  Not such a bonus, we struggle with FPIES.  Currently we’re up to 30 safe foods and 3 trigger foods.  When I look at all the food she has trialed for FPIES and her now safe foods for FPIES I am SO HAPPY.  We have come so far in a little less than a year.  Now our struggle is getting her to actually eat.  She loves to nurse and we’re happy to extend breastfeeding, but her doctors are worried about her weight.   I would typically set her plate up in hopes she’d eat but every new food she tried she wouldn’t care for the previous foods.  Right now her favorite is oranges.. she has an orange obsession!

I’ve come up with little fun ways to ensure she’s eating, hopefully gaining, and always happy!  You should never force feed a child.  IF you want them to eat you have to make it fun and not traumatic.  My grandma, may she rest in piece.. she would make me eat (canned) beans until I was crying hysterically and bribe me with ice pops that were nonexistent.   Scared me for life.  I will never, ever, eat barbecue beans or beans from a can.

So.. back to the tips.. this is what works for us and it’s working EXTREMELY well!