Food, Feeding & Nutrition

Transforming the Feeding Journey

"My baby had some allergic reactions after meals, and I was terrified to continue weaning. Carine investigated his history in depth, made a plan and provided helpful resources. I’ve felt completely supported. My son is doing great, and I’m immensely grateful for everything she’s done for us!"

8 month old boy 

“You were incredibly supportive to us as parents. It was so reassuring to talk to someone who was non-judgmental, understanding and really focused on our child. You gave holistic, practical and helpful advice"

6 year old girl with constipation

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helping children love real food

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Meet Carine Henry

Hello! I'm Carine, a friendly, qualified and experienced children’s dietitian, mother of three, and founder of Paediatric Nutrition, a caring and expert nutrition service based in Cambridge, UK. Helping families feel their best.
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 from infancy to adolescence 

  • What, when and how children eat, at every age and stage, has a powerful impact on wellbeing. Infancy is the most sensitive window in which to influence your child's feeding skills and experience, with the first 1000 days from conception until age 2, strongly associated with developing the blueprint for adult health
  • Learning about food and nutrition in early childhood takes time and commitment; with further learning supported socially and in class at school. Accessing nutritional knowledge, skills and behavioural strategies helps parents in supporting their children to learn about themselves and their bodies. Learning to eat, learning to like, enjoying real food and feeling their best
  • Teens typically seek more independence around food and eating. Nutrition needs are high, and there are radical changes in the physical, mental and emotional spheres, with hormones, appetite, growth, social life and learning all contributing. Food means different things to us all, and how families communicate, structure and set boundaries around food can be both challenging and rewarding.
  • Positively influencing the balance of energy and a wide array of nutrients, supports the gut microbiota and digestive system, the brain and nervous system and builds a resilient immune system to maintain health. Learning to eat a diverse real-food diet from an early age influences the body's blueprint for health across the lifespan
  • Communicating with your infant, child or young person to foster curiosity, enjoyment, agency, self-regulation and understanding about food & nutrition influences their growing body and mind, shaping nutritional self-care for the rest of their lives

exploring each unique feeding journey

My nutritional assessments provide a personalised dietary health overview, which explores an infant, child or young person's food, feeding, eating and nutritional story. Detailed written findings and recommendations are provided, with immediate advice and resources.  This can stand alone to provide reassurance, information and advice or serve as an entry point for further transformative work together. I offer reviews and personalised packages to support management of diet related gut, food allergic and  variety of behavioural challenges around food. Working together, and following an initial assessment, we co-create an easy to follow, step-by-step plan. Offering tools and strategies, easy-to-digest nutritional information, I use a framework adaptable for each child and family, I call Structure, Nurture & Boundaries.

Feeding in the First Year

Feeding in the First Year

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Feeding in the Early Years

Feeding in the Early Years

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Cow's Milk Allergy

Cow's Milk Allergy

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Nourishing Gut Health

Nourishing Gut Health

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Eating Well for the Whole Family

Eating Well for the Whole Family

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 empowering you with confidence 

  • Learn about food, nutrition and the body-mind connection 
  • Hear how the gut microbiota is key to our health, and how to nourish it with food
  • Gain insights into how eating, appetite and gut function are affected by fear, worry and stress
  • Provide clear dietary plans and nutrition know-how for you to work with and grow your own knowledge
  • Boost your nutritional knowledge, and help shape your family’s food experience, and make the best food environment available for your family
  • Gain an insight into each developmental stage in eating, from infancy and the early years, through school, puberty and adolescence
  • Meet your child's nutritional needs with confidence, and influence their health and wellbeing now and into the future

appointments

Carine offers virtual appointments, assessments, personalised packages and reviews on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

With busy lives and continued increases in the costs of living, virtual appointments aim to offer what you need for less. Saving you time, energy and help to keep costs down.

For those times when in person appointments are preferred, Carine has a limited number of in-person assessment appointments at Riverside, Cambridge.  Do please book a discovery call to discuss your needs.

 Client Success Stories inspiring results 

And I can help you as well...

  • “Looking back at our first appointment with Carine, it's clear that this was the turning point in resolving our son's feeding difficulties and her advice has shaped the care that he has received from our local NHS services. For this we will always be so grateful”

    15 month old with feeding difficulties

  • “Within a few days of our first appointment our daughter started to eat again and now, several months down the line, has a much better relationship with food. Carine is incredibly knowledgeable, practical and clearly loves her job, We can't recommend her enough!”

    8 month old with food refusal, growth faltering

  • “You were the first person who listened and actually observed our son's feeding behaviour. You helped us with a swift diagnosis of delayed Cow's Milk Allergy and your logical approach put things in perspective for us at a time when we really needed it.”

    7 month old with feeding difficulties

  • “We've seen Carine on a regular basis to guide us through the weaning process and advise on infant nutrition. She's extremely knowledgeable, personable and offers very practical advice. it's been really useful to receive expert and personalised advice when we've needed it.”

    Parents of first baby

  • “My baby had some allergic reactions after eating and I was terrified to continue weaning. Ever since making contact with her, I've felt completely supported. My son is doing great, and I'm immensely grateful for everything she's done for us!”

    8 month old with multiple allergies

  • “You were incredibly supportive of us as parents. It was reassuring to talk to someone who was non-judgmental, understanding and really focused on our child. What I really liked was that you didn't just address the physical issues, but supported us fully on the psychological as well - you gave holistic, practical and helpful advice on our daughter's constipation. ”

    6 year old with constipation

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