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
Great snack ideas from Susie Burrell - Dietitian/Nutritionist
https://sistersensory.com.au/product/but-im-not-hungry-for-my-dinner/
And meanwhile my Let’s Eat! team Ashleigh and Laura had parents kicking ⚽️ feeding goals with new foods eaten in lockdown.
Telehealth is not “second” to face to face- regardless of lockdown our clients are achieving amazing things with building food variety and working towards ultimate goals of meat and vegetables.
Theory in practice. After spending all day supporting therapists - I’m beyond proud to see my therapists making positive changes in little children’s lives. ⚽️ 🥅 ⭐️ #soproud #feedingtherapyworks
Ps- thank you to Laura’s patient for this gorgeous photo and video 😍 the best part was hearing the joy in mum’s laugh!
So you can imagine how I felt when she wrote the most amazing review on my book - "But I'm NOT Hungry for my Dinner!".
Thank you Suzanne, I'm still pinching myself with your review - thank you from the bottom of my heart x
The book can be found here: https://letseatfeeding.com.au/product/but-im-not-hungry-for-my-dinner/ or online and at good local book stores in the Hunter region.
And if you want to know more about one of our gurus in feeding, here is her website: https://www.new-vis.com/
At Let’s Eat! We hear from families all the time that being able to speak to, relate to, and empathize with other families is so beneficial. I have loved celebrating the successes with you all.
Our take home message yesterday was that no matter how challenging things are, always remember the things your child is doing well! Your child is so much more than what they eat and your success as a parent is not defined by your child’s eating.
Parents, please feel welcome to contact our team to register your interest for future groups - we would love to have you.
Take care,
Ash
