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
What is your feeding approach?
At Let’s Eat! we often get asked by parents and professionals about our feeding approach. After working in the industry for 18 years, I have refined and developed our Let’s Eat! approach so that it continues to be evidence based and clinically delivers the feeding outcomes that parents want.
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
Ashleigh is now 20 weeks pregnant 🎉. She and her husband Steve are expecting their first child, a gorgeous little baby girl in early March. 💖
Congratulations Ash and Steve, from everyone at Let’s Eat! We are just thrilled for you both. Xo
Ps- how cute is their little baby waving at us 😊
Today in our team meeting, we looked at our Feeding Therapy Australia house model which forms the framework of the responsive feeding that we do in our clinic.
We talked about clients and how we can "do better, now that we know better" with therapy goals and strategies. And we talked about which clients we will organise "joint sessions" for to build team knowledge and support.
Yep, love our team and the fortnightly peer mentoring that we give each other (on top of the weekly 2 hour individual supervision that they already get with me).
If you are a feeding therapist and want to know about our Responsive feeding model, join me in November when I present to America (with my colleague Debbie) at the Talk Tools conference: https://talktools.com/pages/talktools-feeding-conference
Or subscribe to Feeding Therapy Australia's mailing list for masterclasses, beginner, and advanced workshops in 2022.
Val #letseatfeeding
But this blog post speaks true to everything we live and breathe at Let's Eat! Have a read - it's a good one.... and I hope you like it too.
Val #letseatfeeding
https://letseatfeeding.com.au/uncategorized/what-is-your-feeding-approach/
In lockdown, this was tricky to do as neither Ash or Laura live in my LGA! (Super disappointed!)
So a dozen cupcake espresso cupcakes instead - we look forward to celebrating with you soon Laura.
Thank you for the maths brain, printer fixer and laughter you bring to our team. You are our creative TikTok fun therapist.
Happy birthday 🥳 🎈 Val and Ash (and all your clients)- Let’s Eat! Feeding Therapy team
A place where “grace and humility” is present.
Not where children are shamed or parents are pressuring themselves to create an ideal of perfection that might not exist.
I like this balanced article- this is the discussion that every therapist needs to have with families-
how can we make this work for you and your family? Let’s create YOUR gathering place.
Ps- I do find the title of the story a bit misleading in trying to sensationalise a story 😉 Val
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.huffpost.com/entry/perfect-family-dinner-study_l_61522217e4b06beda472f9e4/amp?fbclid=IwAR1BhVfaWjNhh_bpb_Fdkuk_sGgfjq85l5_2JxFbU9Ez_m_d-QBuzdNXfNs
