Toddlers

Healthy Eating for A Lifetime: Food is Fun! Grow Appetites Together!

Toddlers are curious, learning through experience. They are eager and happy toexplore new things, when introduced in ways that feel safe! Sometimes when kids have had difficulty with feeding, eating, swallowing, or growing, eating isn't as fun or easy as it can be.

These consults and sessions support parents, caregivers and kids promoting healthy nourishing habits for a lifetime. Food is Fun! is a group dynamic where kids develop relationships with food during fun, informative, supportive and guided mealtime environments.

Mealtime supports nourishment, offers experiences and time to explore in a safe environment. Support your child's growth development, and lifelong well-being.

A 1:1 consult is your first step.

Get Clear on Nutritional Needs: Easy referrals for expert guidance and plans as needed.

Keys to optimal growth, assessing needs and collaborating with providers and your child!

How much and of what does my child need. what if they won't touch it, eat it, try it or swallow it?

Explorations, making feeding, eating and trying new foods safe.


Encouraging Exploration:

Sensory and motor awareness.

Developing techniques that work for you and your child.

Enjoyable mealtimes, end the struggles.


Habits: Building Foundations Now!

What are your families mealtime routines that work best, why. adjust, adapt. figure it out.

Family meals, what, how and why?

Make times together with or without foods enjoyable for everyone.


Development Focus

Self' feeding, sensory exploration and communication.

Language, social and cognitive development around foods, meal preps and traditions.

Set up! Eat up! Clean up! Speak up!


Food ideas, trials, recipes and samples.

How to help the whole family eat well.

Managing a variety of diets, special diets and allergies.

Homemade and getting help.

Checking out what is out there in your community.

Let's gather together for regular mealtimes.

Making food and feeding time easy and fun!

First step is always a consult. Let's see where skills now are at.

Great for second opinions, stepping back in after a break from regular therapy.

After routine therapy is over, or services are no longer covered by insurance.

Looking for expanded whole family care? Want to expand what you are doing?

Let's have fun with food! Eat and feel good.


Healthy Habits Beyond Mealtime:

Other ways to get, be and stay well.

Let's have fun with movements!

Oral Hygiene: With selective eating, often comes oral sensitivities.

Don't let these impact oral care.

Our sessions address how to stop any holding down and fighting to get your child's teeth clean.

Movements and skills of the mouth to take in foods and drinks, manage, chew and swallow.

Communication: Successful negotiations with a toddler.

Sleep, glorious sleep. how much, when and how.

Restful routines and slumber schedules.


Let's get together to work on the foundations of healthy eating habits during the toddler years. Here you are making food experiences safe and fun.

These visits help set up children for a lifetime of positive mealtime experiences, social communication, nutrition and well-being.

Each child is unique, their appetites, desires and readiness varies.

Working together we establish the personalized plan for joyful, nourishing mealtimes.

Real answers

Tongue and Lip Ties?

Find Safe Swallowing!

Wondering about a tongue and lip tie? Not clear what to do, when, with whom and really

Why?

Wanna be guided and helped with practical solutions?

Is your baby or child eating enough, and of the “right” stuff?

Bottles and pacifier questions?

Are you gonna do sleep training? What about baby led weaning?

Gaining too much weight or failure to thrive, just not sure?

There is pressure when a parent doesn’t know what is right and best for their child.

Come for a consult and figure it out for you, not based on some numbers, graphs and charts that might not be telling the whole story.

Do swallowing issues prevent you from moving forward or living well and easily with family and social things? We work together to overcome challenges, enhance swallowing function and make it easy to manage.

Reach out to me, Julee when you are ready to find your better!

Moms, babies, kids and families.