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
Thank you to all our Let’s Eat clients and families who have openly shared their stories for our workshop. The videos definitely help make training so much more practical and real.
Thank you to my 2 amazing therapists Ash and Laura who have been so busy taking videos and photos for my workshop.
Training and supporting therapists is exactly what both Debbie and I (Feeding Therapy Australia) are absolutely passionate about. It’s been a BIG two days and I am so honoured to have met friendly and talented Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and Dietitians across the region here at Coffs Harbour.
Gillian and Lisa- thanks for all the hard work with getting the funding grant - what a wonderful way to support therapists in the region. Lovely to have met you both!!
🍽 Val Gent- Feeding Therapy Australia and Let’s Eat
My hubby worked in the clinic from 9am - 6pm (he is amazing!!). And despite getting a wasp bite (2 bites), my beautiful boys alternated between puppy babysitting duties, cleaning, gardening and putting smaller pieces of furniture together.
None of this would not have been possible if it wasn’t for Michelle from Early Start Speech Pathology who has tirelessly project managed the renovations this last week. Thanks Shell!
We can’t wait for our big moving date on Thursday 13th May!
Xo Val - Let’s Eat
Ps- thank you to my friends who picked up and dropped my boys to their various weekend activities and play dates. Really appreciated it. It brightened up their day. 😘
Can you guess what those long sticks were?
Not chocolate (my first thought) but fried spaghetti strands 😳
I didn’t know you could deep fry uncooked spaghetti - made me think about all the options we could explore for our restricted eaters.
So tell me- have you tried deep fried uncooked spaghetti strands? Did you like it?
Val
Val (and Debbie - co-owner of Feeding Therapy Australia) have just released details to their store for therapists to purchase feeding assessment and therapy resources.
In coming months, they will also release the rest of their online masterclasses (current masterclasses SOLD OUT) - head to their FB page for more details.
Have a great weekend - Let's Eat team
