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 […]
Hunter region
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 […]
Tongue Ties – will it affect your child’s feeding skills and speech skills?
Babies with tongue ties (medically termed as “Ankyloglossia”) are one of the common referrals Paediatric Feeding Speech Pathologists get. They are usually diagnosed at birth and regardless of feeding method, most mothers worry about the impact of their baby’s tongue tie on feeding and speech development. Source of picture: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/medical/IM04660 Is it common? The incidence of […]
Dummies, Dummies, Dummies – A Speech Pathology perspective.
Will dummies help or hinder feeding and speech development? I was recently chatting with some new mums about the facts and myths behind dummies. If you think about it, dummies have a long history. The first mention of them was in Germany in the 1500s but excavations of ancient burial sites show evidence of clay dummies […]