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Allergy life With a 4 yr old: Spencer’s Story

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3 Dec

Today’s post is about Spencer.

Spencer is a four-year-old who lives with food allergies

Today Sophie, Spencer‘s mum, talks to us about life with food allergies and how they cope day to day and even some of the positives that come from living the diagnosis that they didn’t ask for.

Take a listen to the video above or you can go over to the podcast below…

I hope that’s been helpful for you today. If you want more from The Nest, then we’ve got lots of other resources for you. We’ve got our FREE Virtual First Aid Kit for all mums, dads and grandparents and anyone that looks after your child. It’s a PDF that you can download to your phone or computer, you can print it out and bind it. It’s got lots of different first aid situations in it, including choking and CPR. You can find it at the bottom of every page on our website.

We’ve also got our Birthday Parties Meet Food Allergy Freebie here. If you want yo go one step further, take a look at our Nest Allergy Membership for families living with childhood food allergy. You also get Facebook group support for all your questions, which are answered by allergy nurses and a workbook as well.

If you want more than that, we have our classes. We have online classes, home classes, private couples classes. We do classes in clinics in New South Wales, we do home classes and public classes in Canberra, South Australia & Sydney.

We hope you enjoyed this! Our mission to to help parents cut through the clutter of anxiety and worry when it comes to their child’s health and wellbeing.

We want you to trust yourself, know that you have all the tools in your nest to keep your child safe and well, so you can stop googling, and coming away more confused than when you started, you have landed in our well feathered nest and we’ve got your back, every step of the way!

We hope you enjoyed this! Our mission to to help parents cut through the clutter of anxiety and worry when it comes to their child’s health and wellbeing.

We want you to trust yourself, know that you have all the tools in your nest to keep your child safe and well, so you can stop googling, and coming away more confused than when you started, you have landed in our well feathered nest and we’ve got your back, every step of the way!

Here are some further resources you might enjoy!

{FREE} Your Virtual First Aid Kit – https://thenestcpr.kartra.com/page/firstaid

Book a baby & child first aid class – https://www.thenestcpr.com/book

The Nest CPR & Allergy Flock FB Group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenestcpr

The Nest Allergy Membership – https://www.thenestcpr.com/allergy-membership

Online Baby & Child First Aid – https://thenestcpr.com/product/online/

Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/thenestcpr and

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thenestcpr

Keep in touch and email us with any queries!

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