CHILD & FAMILY NUTRITION
The key to positive mealtimes and raising happy, healthy and adventurous eaters is an appropriate division of responsibilities between parents and children. Whether you are looking to tune up your family’s nutrition, troubleshoot feeding issues, or get a family meal plan in place, I can help!
MOST COMMON QUESTIONS AND PEOPLE ALSO ASK:
- Is your baby ready to start solids but you are not sure what foods to offer?
- Concerned that your child is not getting enough nutrients because they have allergies, intolerances, or only eat a few specific foods?
- Do meal times at home sometimes feel like a battle?
- Are you worried that your child doesn’t eat enough vegetables?
- Want to know how to meet your child’s nutrition needs while following a vegetarian or vegan diet?
- Do you spend a lot of time cooking food for your family only to be told “yuck”?
- Are you struggling to come up with meals and snacks that your child will actually eat?
- Worried because you’ve been told that your child is either gaining weight too slowly or too quickly?
STARTING SOLIDS
With an emphasis on Baby-Led Weaning. Learn how to honour your child’s hunger & satiety cues.
PICKY EATING
Restore meal time peace. Learn to implement the division of responsibility to raise competent and adventurous eaters.
FAMILY NUTRITION
Ensure that your whole family is meeting their nutritional needs. Learn skills to make feeding your family simple and enjoyable.
Ms Yeting works with families to promote trust and a positive feeding relationship between parent and child.
Our strategies and tips usually involve helping parents establish and maintain a division of responsibility in feeding in order to help children become eating competent.
- Concern with baby gaining too much or too little
- Introducing solids and not sure where to start
- Concern with baby not eating much
- Picky eating with toddlers
- Nutrient deficiencies in infants and how to overcome
- General guidance on how to create a healthy eating pattern from the start
At the end of the program, you will receive personalized interventions that address your nutrition concerns with practical solutions and recommendations
- Infant feeding/ introducing solids
- Toddler nutrition
- Weight concerns (underweight /overweight) *non-diet approach
- Selective/picky eater or restrictive eating
- Help your child learn to self-regulate around food
- Raising intuitive eaters with a positive attitude about food
