
Starting school is a huge milestone and mixture of emotions for every child and parent. When your child has an allergy/allergies these feelings can be coupled with anxiety and apprehension. I certainly felt that way when M started school two years ago. She was leaving pre school where we knew all the staff so well and they had been amazing with their care and understanding of allergies and she was also going to be at school 5 days a week meaning I would see her less and have less ‘control’ of her care. I was worried about this and as I have previously spoken about my anxiety this definitely became worse around this time. I will be honest and say on my days off work I would watch the clock waiting until I could pick her up and I checked my phone constantly to ensure the school hadn’t…
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