Our Family's Food Allergy Journey

My name is Emma. I have decided to create a blog where I can post about successes and failures as I try to find allergy friendly food to feed my four year old son Taylor. I am the mother of five beautiful children(whose children aren't beautiful to them?). They range in age from 12-almost 2. I have two daughters and three sons. They bring me such joy. Taylor has struggled his whole life with eating. Since the moment he was born I knew he had reflux worse than my other children. He was always so tiny. The medicine helped but by the time he was one year old he began choking on the stomach contents after he fell asleep. For the next six months until we could get into a specialist I hardly slept at all. I constantly worried that I wouldn't wake up when he was choking. After seeing the specialist and adding one more medication he improved a lot. He finally began to grow!! His specialist always suspected food intolerances, but since there was no dangerous reactions we opted to wait to test because it is expensive. Then about one and a half months ago he finally had a reaction and we scheduled the food allergy testing. We found out he was allergic to egg, soy, tree nuts, coconut, and sesame seed. They also said to stay away from peanuts right now too even though he didn't test positive for that. We will test again in June. It has been a great struggle for me to find things that he will eat. He is very stubborn and picky and isn't excited at all to try new things. That brings me to this blog. I wanted somewhere to record what recipes work. I hope that this will give me a chance to help anyone else too. I decided that our whole family would eat Taylor friendly for dinner, but other meals it would be okay to eat mostly normal. We did change some things because it would just be a pain to have two different items, for example two different loaves of white bread. I am not a blogger, so this is new for me. Hopefully, I can figure out how to put recipes on here and separate them into types of food. Here I go!