Founded by Valerie Gent, Let's Eat! Feeding Therapy is a Newcastle based Private Paediatric Feeding intervention service for babies and children from birth to adolescence.
Feeding difficulties in babies and children can be very stressful for parents as well as their child. The goal of Let's Eat! is to empower the family to be able to understand and respond to the feeding difficulties their child may present with. Treatment is clinic based but home and school visits can be arranged with an additional travel fee.
The team at Let's Eat is passionate about feeding difficulties, we love working with families in a practical and team focused way.
We look forward to working with you too!
Starting Solids: Keeping safe with Baby-led Weaning
Welcome to part 2 of our “starting solids” blog. In the last post we focused on the more traditional “parent-led weaning” approach. You can check this one out here: Starting solids, parent-led weaning or baby-led weaning? – Let’s Eat! Feeding Therapy. This post will look at a feeding approach
Starting solids, parent-led weaning or baby-led weaning?
There is so much information online about starting your baby on solids which can make it very confusing and challenging to know where to start. Step one is determining whether your baby is ready… The World Health Organisation recommends starting solids by 6 months, but not before 4 months.
Paediatric Feeding Disorders (PFD) – the new diagnostic term..
Paediatric Feeding Disorders and why you may see us using this term in your child’s feeding reports. Up until recently, if you had a child with a feeding difficulty, your health providers may have termed it differently. A Speech Pathologist might have called it “delayed oral motor skills” while
How can I get feeding therapy for my child when I can’t go to a clinic in this COVID-19 telehealth world?
Getting feeding therapy for your child in this COVID-19 climate.
What I don’t recommend doing when you come to eat with your fussy eater…
Today in our Let’s Eat Team meeting, Ashleigh and I talked about fussy eaters and mealtime stress. The phrase of “parents provide and children decide” is commonly used and forms the platform of how we work with families. This phrase was coined by Ellyn Satter in her Division of
Swallowing tablets? Do you or your child have difficulties with it?
Do you know this is a question I often get asked and I know when I worked in acute hospitals, I often got asked by doctors to help patients with their meds. When a cousin recently asked me, I struggled to find a lot of information online and then
Are mealtimes a cause of stress in your household?
Here is my 6 step plan on how to serve it up and hopefully enjoy that family meal. We were all little once and as parents now, we serve up meals on what we know and often how we were served as children. This could be pre-plating and sitting
Practice makes perfect
Practice made perfect is the title of a journal article published in 2008. Although this article is now 12 years old, it is a good one that gives us as therapists and parents important information about how a child learns about a food. In our clinic, we often see
We are looking for a new therapist to join our team!
For the first time ever- this job position is open to a Speech Pathologist OR an Occupational Therapist. The catch is? Your role will be in paediatric feeding only as per our specialist feeding private practice. The upside? If you have loved feeding difficulties / fussy eating and have
My books have arrived 🙌 currently available on pre-order on Book depository. The online sales link for my website is coming out this week. Will post the QR code as soon as it’s launched.
If you are local to Newcastle then please keep Sunday 27th June free.
As you know our new clinic is based in Lambton. The Lambton community are having their 150 year festival celebration and we have been invited to join!
The entire week (21-27 June) have celebrations planned with local business sales, walking theatres and on Sunday, a big market with food trucks, music etc on Lambton Park.
So pencil it in your diary and come find our table (next to the roses) with Early Start Speech Pathology in Lambton Park on Sunday 27th June. We can’t wait to see you and show you the book (and our new clinic) at this HUGE local community party. So much fun!!
https://m.facebook.com/lambton150years/
Let’s get this done everyone! 🇦🇺 Val
Would you mind sharing this flyer with them please? We are keen to support all childcares with evidence based responsive feeding strategies.
We hear stories of force feeding, bribing and food withholding to entice kids to eat- it doesn’t work and worse- can cause trauma with feeding. Let’s change that narrative from the ground level up for all kids.
Thanks, Val Gent, Let’s Eat! Feeding Therapy & Feeding Therapy Australia
“I find that the word “disabled” to me means strength, beauty and family”.
Love ❤️ this interview with Kurt Fearnley and ABC Kids Community.
Please watch it, Kurt answers each question with humour, honesty and such wisdom. He is also a pretty amazing man himself!
To all the parents of fussy eaters who refuse dinner- we hear you! 🤷🏽♀️ #bigsnack 😉
