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This brand started with my daughter Claire, a two-year search for answers, and a gut test that changed everything.
Claire was three months old when I knew something was wrong. Not the kind of knowing that comes from a book or a search result. The kind that lives in your chest and does not leave. She was fussy in a way that felt different. Inconsolable in a way that felt internal. Every instinct I had told me her stomach was the problem. Looking back now, I know I was right. The eczema that appeared on her skin in those first months was not the root issue. It was her body showing us, on the outside, what was happening on the inside.
Every instinct I had told me her stomach was the problem. It took two years and the right test to prove I was right.
What followed was two years of trying everything we knew to try.
We saw two pediatricians in her first few months. We saw a chiropractor. I spoke to my lactation consultant. Everyone said the same thing in different words: she is fussy, she is colicky, she is gaining weight, give it time. One pediatrician suggested Claire might be reacting to dairy or gluten through my breast milk and told me to cut both out and see what happened. I tried. Without any measurable evidence to anchor me, without knowing whether it was actually working, I could not stay strict. Eliminating an entire food group on a theory felt like going blind.
By her first birthday, Claire’s eczema had moved to the back of her neck. She wore angel wings to her birthday party and could not stand them touching her skin. I remember singing happy birthday watching her in that highchair, and when she climbed down and walked away I could see the back of her neck. Red, raw, inflamed. She looked like a happy, healthy baby from the front. Her skin told a different story.
We saw our first naturopath around that time. More creams. A specific probiotic. A sleep training recommendation. Things improved for a stretch and I told myself maybe it was seasonal, maybe we had turned a corner. We had not.
By late 2024 and into early 2025 the eczema was back and worse. This time it did not go away. We tried a tub filter to reduce chlorine exposure. We tried red light therapy. We changed every light in the house to support her circadian rhythm. I held her to sleep most nights because she could not get comfortable on her own. She would wake in the night scratching, crying, unable to settle. Mornings were better. The inflammation was always slightly lower when she woke up, which made me think it was environmental, something in the air or the bedding. Nights were relentless.
We went to a dermatologist. The prescription cream she gave us worked. Claire’s skin cleared. And every bone in my body told me we were just masking the problem. We used the cream long enough for her wounds to heal so she would stop scratching them open, and then we got her off it as fast as we could. I knew I needed a different path. I just did not know yet what that path looked like.
The dermatologist’s cream worked. And every bone in my body told me we were just masking the problem.
My husband grew up with eczema. His whole family did. He outgrew it at seven, and so did everyone on his side. When Claire’s skin kept flaring, his honest belief was that she would do the same. That this was just how their family’s bodies worked, and that time would handle it. He was not wrong to think that. It was all the evidence he had ever seen.
I could not accept a seven-year timeline for my daughter. I could not accept that suffering was the protocol.
So I made another naturopath appointment. This one was out of network, a real financial commitment on top of everything we had already spent. Our original naturopath was not available for a month and I did not want to wait. We got in that week with a new doctor at the practice. I did not know anything about him when I booked it. I just needed to get in.
That appointment changed everything.
This naturopath had specific training in nutrition, something I did not know going in and something that turned out to matter more than anything else. He did not hand me another cream. He did not tell me to wait and see. He told me we could run tests that would give us measurable results. A gut microbiome test through Tiny Health that would show exactly what was happening in Claire’s digestive system. A food sensitivity panel that would map her specific immune responses to the foods she was eating.
I left that appointment with my mother. My husband was deep in building his company and did not have the bandwidth that day. I was almost shaking with relief. Not because we had answers yet. Because for the first time in two years someone was offering me evidence instead of guesses. My husband and I are both analytical people. We do not do well with “try this and see.” We need data. We need to know that if we change something, we are changing it for a documented reason. The idea of having lab results, an actual internal picture of what was going wrong in our daughter’s body, I knew immediately that this was the approach that would work for our family. And I knew it was the thing that would finally get my husband fully on board.
The results, when they came back, gave us exactly that. A targeted protocol. Specific supplements. Dietary changes based on what Claire’s body was actually reacting to, not what we were guessing at. A roadmap instead of a blindfold.
Claire’s skin today is night and day from that photo taken in June 2025. She still has the occasional small flare if she is sick and her immune system is down, or if she is accidentally exposed to eggs, which turned out to be a true allergy. Those moments are minor. She does not scratch. She does not notice. They pass.
My husband’s side of the family has carried a dairy sensitivity for generations. Claire was heading in the same direction. Addressing her gut health at two years old changed her trajectory. We did in one year what his family spent seven years waiting to outgrow, and we did it with evidence, not patience.
If you want to understand what the Tiny Health test actually showed us, start here.
The gut is not a problem you solve once and move on from. It is something you maintain, something that shifts with illness and seasons and growth. We are about a year into Claire’s protocol now and we are still learning, still adjusting. What we have is the roadmap. The testing gave us that.
Made With Clean exists because I went looking for that roadmap and could not find it. Not in the pediatrician’s office. Not in the cream aisle. Not in any of the places I spent two years searching.
I built it for the mother who is exactly where I was.
If you are ready to start reducing your family’s toxic load today, the Non-Toxic Home Swap Guide is where I would begin.
I am not a medical professional. Everything I share on Made With Clean is based on my personal experience, research, and conversations with our naturopath. Nothing on this site should be taken as medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making changes to your child’s diet, supplement routine, or health protocol.