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. We use a responsive feeding approach […]
Speech Pathology
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 on the couch/dinner table or Mediterranean […]
Do you label food as GOOD? BAD? HEALTHY? UNHEALTHY? with your child.
I had a conversation with a mum today about her child who has recently started watching you tube videos and songs about food and now says “this is a healthy food”. She understandably struggled with how to guide him with food from an emotional and nutritional perspective. This is a tough one in the parenting […]
Do you have a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and fussy eating?
Do you have a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and fussy eating? Have you tried different therapy strategies with limited or no success? Here is the challenge – in order to get the best treatment in this area, we need to accurately assess the feeding difficulty. But what is it that we are actually […]
I’m worried that my fussy eater isn’t getting enough iron…
As you know, I recently wrote a blog post on chewing difficulties and fussy eaters for the lovely Kyla from Mealtime Building Blocks in Perth. And as part of our blogging exchange, she agreed to write a blog post for me. My blogging topic request? The number one concern that all my families have – […]
My top 5 toddler feeding equipment
Every time I visit a family home for a feeding assessment for their child, I frequently turn up with my box of “tricks” – basically a box of feeding bottles, cups, bowls, spoons and random food items. You never know when you might need to try something…. Yes, I do buy a lot of baby feeding […]
Banana pancakes anyone?
I love making pancakes for my family on the weekend. And if I’m awake enough, I usually double the recipe and make smaller pancakes to take for morning tea during the week. Fresh pancakes are great for toddlers because you can mash the banana if they are still learning to chew or if you want […]
Healthy muffin recipe for toddlers (and learning to chew bubs)
When treating toddlers with chewing difficulties, I always struggle with “easy to chew” snack ideas. There are only so many cruskits and sweet biscuits you can have and the reality is that most families will have a combination of fruits, cheeses, yoghurts with the occasional muffin as snack options. So my goal was to make […]
When to introduce solids to your baby?
To start or not to start – the introduction of solids… The conundrum! When should I start my baby on solids is a question posed to Paediatric Feeding Speech Pathologists, Doctors and Baby Health nurses nearly every day. When I answer it in my practice, ‘Let’s Eat! Paediatric Speech Pathology’, I find that it’s not […]