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Katrina and Jess add one more!

Saint Paul, MN

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Katrina and Jess are expecting a second child. Eira is excited to meet their little sibling! Follow page for updates on name and birth stats. While Jess's celiac disease means a traditional meal train isn't safe for our family, we would love to welcome some support from our community. Here's what's helpful: Packaged snacks! This is the safest way for us to accept food support and is a HUGE HELP. See guidelines in Special Notes section. To sign up for a snack drop, select a slot labeled "groceries." Other ways to help: -Walking our collie Chester. (Pet care) -Visiting, especially (BUT NOT ONLY!) if you're a parent of two or more. Stories are helpful for us to make sense of this threshold. Visitors should be healthy and vaccinated. -Help at home: dishes and folding laundry especially. Definitely can meet baby as part of this. (Home services) -Taking Eira outside! Bonus if you've got kids of your own for Eira to play with. Come in to say hi to baby and parents and then head off to one of our local parks. (Child care) -Our go-to gluten free restaurant to order from is Brim--Brim or Instacart Giftcards are great! -Gifts of cash will support our cloth diaper laundry service and/or newborn family photos. -We love getting cards in the mail!


Special Notes

Jess's celiac disease means we have to be super serious about gluten. If food is prepared (cut, cooked, mixed, repackaged, etc), that needs to happen in a gluten free space (our kitchen, a GF commercial kitchen, or your kitchen if you also happen to have to keep a 100% gluten free kitchen!) Trust us, it hurts our hearts as much as yours to not be able to accept homemade food, but this is how we minimize Jess's long term risk of colon cancer and short term risk of feeling terrible while parenting a preschooler and a newborn. Long list of snacks that do work for us below!! Katrina manages some blood sugar issues by prioritizing protein and fat over carbs, so the best snacks for her are protein or fat-rich and/or fresh produce. Eira is in preschool on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. All other days open for taking Eira to the park. Can coordinate this via text. E would love to see neighborhood and church friends at this time! Snack deliveries can happen any time, really. Feel free to text Jess 952-245-1558 to coordinate. Safest: Cheese sticks, fresh veg (mini peppers, baby carrots, cucumbers, grape tomatoes), fresh fruit (grapes, berries, apples, banana, clementines, melon if it's cut at our place), boiled eggs, seaweed snacks, dill pickles, olives. Tortilla chips and popcorn are almost always safe. Spindrift sparkling water, any flavor. Also good: Rice cakes, crackers labeled gluten free (nut thins, Simple Mills). Meat sticks or jerky marked gluten free. Granola/protein bars clearly marked gluten free (Perfect Bars, Simply Protein, KIND, GoMacro are our favorites). Fruit leather bars (That's It, Simply Nature, Bear brand) would also make Eira SO HAPPY. Guacamole, hummus, French onion dip, and salsa are good too if marked gluten free! Difficult: nuts and trail mixes. We love nuts, but these are almost always processed on shared lines or shared facilities. If it's marked GF it's fine, but if not then avoid.

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