During the early years and the first 1000 days, young children have specific developmental needs around food, feeding, nutrition and learning. I work with a variety of areas both F2F and in parent workshops, offering guidance for the following :
- promoting feeding skills, behaviours and food related learning
- acceptance of family foods and moving forward with textures
- building diversity in young children’s diets
- constipation and toileting
- dietary changes to fibres, fluids, plant based foods
- alerted bowel habits and abdominal pain
- targeted probiotics, working down laxatives
- skills and techniques for toileting
- parent workshops available
- making mealtimes better: structure, nurture & boundaries
- equipping parents with skills & strategies to improve mealtimes
- meeting key nutrients
- balancing food groups
- thinking 6 superfood groups
- using models of play, positive reinforcement, praise
- parent workshops available
- highly selective eating in neurodiverse children
- does my child have ARFID?
- food refusal and extreme food refusal
- simple food refusal
- food intolerance in young children
- fructose intolerance
- lactose intolerance
- toddler diarrhoea
- using food reintroduction ladders