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!
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 always wanted to specialise in this caseload then this is the dream job for you. Essential criteria Relevant
We are biased but we think that this beautifully illustrated book by Kirrili Lonergan Illustrator and written by Val Gent Let’s Eat- Feeding Therapy would be a wonderful book for any child aged 2-6 years of age.
The book is evidence-based and supported by the Satter Division of responsibility - a responsive World Health Organisation approach to attachment-based parenting. Want to know more?
Here is a little video about it
More details? Head to our website to purchase (and have it posted) or pick it up at our Lambton clinic: https://letseatfeeding.com.au/product/but-im-not-hungry-for-my-dinner/
If you're around local book stores, head in there and pick up a copy.
International followers can purchase it from Amazon, Book Depository and other online stores.
While it’s easier to always order foods you know your kids will eat, be brave- step out every once in a while.
I love a good poke bowl but my kids love pizza. So we take turns with deciding what we order on a Friday night.
The best thing about poke bowls is that you can assemble your own. Here is my 10 year old son’s version of his poke bowl- did he eat all of it? No, but he surprised us with his huge salad selection and we as adults had a delicious meal that we wanted to eat that night.
So I whisper to you- be brave, step outside the comfort zone, encourage your kids to be part of the ordering and share everything so wastage is minimal.
See you there, Val
In this video, Amythest talks about the different types of stimming.
I know that learning from her, I'm very conscious now of observing if the stimming a child is doing is happy (or anxious) stimming, self-regulation stimming or sensory seeking stimming in feeding therapy.
I admit, I didn't appreciate all the variances and am so glad that autistic adults like Amythest are taking the time to educate neurotypical people.
Val
- ASD and feeding masters study (loving the learning that I do every day)
https://youtu.be/WexCWZPJE6A
