Food: pepperoni and banana pepper pizza.
So, last summer I had my beautiful baby girl. Long story short, after a few weeks, we found out my baby was allergic to milk (mucus and blood in her stools). I was breastfeeding, so I cut out all dairy. She got better but still had symptoms a few times per week. Turns out, I had to cut out all soy as well. I’m talking about cutting out any food that contains soybean oil (which, I found out is almost everything).
Trying to cook food for all meals with a newborn and dealing with breastfeeding hunger was soo difficult. So we tried some hypoallergenic formulas. Those failed. She was still getting symptoms, so then I had to cut out wheat. And, when she failed the amino acid formulas, we figured out she also reacted to corn.
So, for almost a year, I had no choice but to cut out all dairy, soy, wheat, and corn, including their derivatives. My diet was so restricted, because anything vegan and gluten free almost always had soybean oil and/ corn starch in it.
I had so much anxiety that what I was eating would hurt my baby. It was such a difficult year. But now, I made it to a year of breastfeeding and am finally done. It’s so freeing not having to read every label 3x. To celebrate, I decided to get what I was craving most…PIZZA!
EDIT: Thank you all for the kind words. It made me tear up! 🥹 I love this community