Feeding
Tips from a feeding therapist for feeding development, mealtime strategies, picky eating, and more
Common Mealtime Mistakes When Starting Solids and How to Fix Them
Avoid these common mealtime mistakes and learn what to do instead to get your little one's feeding skills back on track, and make mealtimes more enjoyable!
What Can I Do to Help Get My Baby Ready to Start Solid Foods?
Find out what activities you can do with your 3-6 month old to get them ready to start solid foods, including stick shaped teethers, watching you eat, and sitting practice!
When Should I Start Solid Foods With My Baby?
Learn about how to know when your baby is ready for solid foods, skills needed for purees versus soft solids, and tips on getting your baby ready for solids.
Top 10 Teethers for Baby to Help Prepare for Solid Foods
Learn which teethers are recommended to help get your baby ready to start solid foods, and how teethers can advance oral motor skills for eating.
10 Tips to Help Your Picky Eater With Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving often brings to mind happy memories spent with family and friends, and a time for sharing a delicious meal. For families with picky eaters however, Thanksgiving may turn from a happy event revolving around tasty food, to a stressful situation. Learn about tips you can use to help your picky eater with Thanksgiving, to help create happy holiday memories for you and your child.
How, Why, and When to Teach Straw Drinking To Your Baby
Many parents have been led to believe by marketing that sippy cups are the next developmental stage after bottles, but that’s not the case! Learn how, why, and when to teach your baby to drink from a straw to advance their oral development and feeding skills.
5 Ways You May Be Pressuring Your Child To Eat and What To Do Instead
As a parent, you want to ensure that your child is getting proper nutrition, but sometimes, we may place intentional or unintentional pressure on them to eat. This pressure can result in the opposite of our intended effect. Learn how you might be pressuring your child to eat, and what to do instead to foster healthy eating habits for long-term success.
The Power of Cues to Eating and Mealtime Routines
Just like bedtime routines help get our body ready to sleep, mealtime routines help get our body’s sensory system ready to eat. Learn what “cues to eating” are, and how to incorporate them alongside mealtime routines to help improve your child’s eating.
Hard Munchables: Advance Your Baby’s Feeding Skills With Real Food Teethers
Hard munchables are resistive and unbreakable sticks of food that can significantly increase your baby’s oral motor skills to get them ready for chewable solid foods. Learn how they can help advance your baby’s feeding skills, and check out the ultimate list of hard munchables.
9 Tips for Introducing New Foods At Meals With Picky Eaters
Introducing new foods to children, and especially picky eaters, can be a challenge for parents. Learn how these 9 tips can help create an environment that will help encourage picky eaters to try new foods.
The Division of Responsibilities Explained for More Successful Mealtimes
The Division of Responsibilities, a research-based approach by Ellyn Satter, can help alleviate mealtime stress by dividing mealtime responsibilities between parents and children, and help make mealtimes a more positive experience.
How To Talk About Food With Your Children
Instead of using subjective words like “good” and “bad” when talking about food with your children, use descriptive words to describe the sensory properties of the food. Learn what other strategies to use when talking about food.
Strategies for More Successful Mealtimes: The What, How, and How Much of Foods at Meals
Set your child up for a successful mealtimes by thinking about what food is being served, how much food is being served, and how the food is being served. Learn more.
Strategies for More Successful Mealtimes: How to Transition into Meals on a Positive Note
Not all tantrums can be predicted, but by working towards starting meals off on a positive note with a few simple strategies, we set our children up for success.
The Ultimate List of Feeding Supplies to Start Solid Foods
Check out my complete guide, as a feeding therapist, of my favorite feeding tools and supplies for starting solids, from high chairs to spoons, cups, bowls/plates, and more, and how they benefit your baby’s feeding development.
38 Fun Ideas to Play with Food and Decrease Picky Eating
Playing with food is an important step in learning to eat. Find out fun ways to incorporate play during your mealtimes to help reduce picky eating.
How Does Getting Messy and Playing With Food Help Feeding Development and Reduce Picky Eating?
Learn how getting messy can help reduce picky eating, and ways to implement this strategy at home.
The Ultimate List of Meltable Solids
Meltable solids quickly dissolve and are a great first solid texture to introduce to your baby to help them learn how to move solid foods around their mouth and to chew.
9 Mealtime Strategies To Help Your Child With Picky Eating
These actionable strategies can help increase successful mealtimes and improve your child's picky eating by providing a positive and supportive environment, structure, exposure to new foods, and reduced pressure. .
Part 2: Steps to Introducing Solid Foods - Soft Solids and More
Learn the whys and hows of introducing soft solids by 9-10 months including introducing hard munchables, meltable solids, soft cubes and strips, and table foods.