Babies, Children and Adolescents
Supporting your child’s nutrition and growth is one of the most important parts of their journey to health, wellbeing, and reaching their full potential. With specialised, evidence-based guidance, I’m here to help you navigate each phase, from infancy through adolescence.
Babies, Children and Adolescents
Supporting your child’s nutrition and growth is one of the most important parts of their journey to health, wellbeing, and reaching their full potential. With specialised, evidence-based guidance, I’m here to help you navigate each phase, from infancy through adolescence.
Babies, Children and Adolescents
As a paediatric dietitian who has worked with lots of children and families, I know that every child has unique nutritional needs, and every parent wants the best for their child’s health. Together, we’ll create a foundation for lifelong healthy eating habits tailored to your child’s unique needs.
You will find clarity, confidence, and strategies that simplify feeding, address specific health concerns, and make nutrition a positive experience.
Optimal growth and establishing healthy eating patterns start here. I provide guidance on:
• Breastfeeding and Formula Needs: Ensuring balanced nutrient intake and a smooth feeding experience.
• Introducing Solids: Timing, signs of readiness, and the best foods for your baby’s development, to prevent allergies, and reduce risks of fussiness in toddler years.
• Managing Common Concerns: Solutions for reflux, intolerances, allergies, and underweight or low-growth concerns.
• Feeding Dynamics: Encouraging healthy feeding interactions and mealtime routines that build your baby’s trust and competence in eating.
Embracing New Foods and Developing Tastes
Toddlers can be wonderfully curious yet sometimes selective with foods, which can lead to stressful mealtimes. I help with:
• Handling Picky Eating: Positive, pressure-free strategies to support adventurous eating and overcome food aversions.
• Balanced Diets and Nutritional Needs: Ensuring your toddler gets enough nutrition such as iron, protein, healthy fats, and vitamins for growth.
• Mealtime Structure and Routine: Setting up a predictable structure that makes mealtimes enjoyable and reduces power struggles.
• Food Allergies and Sensitivities: Managing restrictions while ensuring balanced nutrition and creating safe, enjoyable meals.
Supporting Growth, Learning, and Activity
As children grow, their nutritional needs evolve. I provide targeted advice to help meet the demands of school, play, and development:
• Nutrition for Growth and Immune Health: Ensuring that the needs for essential vitamins and minerals for energy, brain health, focus and immune support are met.
• Family Meal Planning: Building balanced, flexible family meals that support your child’s health and instill positive eating habits.
• Managing Health Conditions: Individualised support for food allergies, intolerances, digestive issues, or specific health conditions.
• Body Positivity and Self-Confidence: Promoting healthy body image and fostering a positive relationship with food.
Building Healthy Habits for the Future
Teenagers are establishing lifelong eating patterns that influence both their physical health and mental well-being. I’m here to support:
• Nutritional Needs for Growth Spurts and Activity: Customised guidance to fuel studies and exam performance, recreational and competitive sports, and social lives!
• Mental Health and Nutrition: Practical strategies that promote positive body image, resilience, and a balanced approach to food.
• Managing Health Conditions: Dietary guidance for disordered eating, diabetes, allergies, or digestive concerns.
• Nutrition for Busy Lifestyles: Simple, realistic ideas for balanced meals and snacks that support long-term health and independence.
Support for Children with Complex or Special Needs:
I recognise that caring for a child with complex medical conditions, cancer, disabilities, or neurodivergence brings unique challenges, from navigating feeding difficulties to balancing the emotional, physical, and financial stresses that can impact family life. I offer tailored help with:
• Tube Feeding and Specialised Diets: Developing practical, nutritionally complete solutions for tube-fed children at initiation, during maintenance and when weaning.
• Customised Feeding Strategies: Addressing specific challenges associated with physical, developmental, or sensory difficulties as well as side effects from medical treatment.
• Compassionate, Non-Judgmental Care: Working closely with families and healthcare teams, I offer guidance that respects each child’s journey and empowers parents with practical tools to support their child’s wellbeing.
I know that feeding challenges can be overwhelming, and I am here to help you find reassurance, comfort, and effective strategies that work for your family understanding support and evidence-based solutions that align with your goals for your child’s wellbeing. Every child deserves a chance to thrive, and I am here to support you every step of the way.
