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...For infants and children with food allergies, transitioning to solid foods can be tricky. I recently helped write a transition guide to help parents through this sometimes-difficult task. Even though this transition might cause anxiety, it is an exciting and very important time in a child’s life. The guide, called Feeding Tips for a Successful Transition, is a great quick reference for parents when they are at this step in their little ones lives....

...tube-fed pumped breastmilk. Within just a few days, he began showing signs of dairy protein intolerance, including excess fussiness and gassiness just after eating, arching, vomiting, mucus in his stools and diarrhea. His mom eliminated dairy from her diet and that seemed to improve his condition some and he started gaining a little weight. After a couple weeks, Roland was weaned from the tube and sent home. Unfortunately, once at home, his symptoms continued to...

...to your traditional birthday cake Is your child receiving his/her nutrition via a feeding tube and unable to eat by mouth? Check out this “foodless birthday cake” that our colleague Mallory created for her sister If you’re a parent to a child who does not have food allergies, learn more about food allergies in order to host a “food-allergy friendly party”. This post has it all, including information on hosting a party with guests who...

...if the ingredients are appropriate for your child’s specific food allergies. For some more tips on allergy-friendly birthday parties. For kids who are not able to eat food at all, this is an even greater challenge. In these cases, parents get extremely creative making fun, non-edible birthday cakes. My sister Caroline has a feeding tube but up until last year, she was able to eat SOME food by mouth so we always just got her...

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...She was diagnosed at 8 months after one of the longest battles of our life. Our journey started the day we found out we were pregnant. Every mother becomes overjoyed with the thought of having a beautiful healthy baby. But to even think for one moment that something could be wrong is unfathomable. Three weeks early baby “N” came. Everything was fine until her first bottle. Breast feeding was not an option due to some...