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