Growing With Every Bite Programme
Spectrum Growing With Every Bite is a 4-session toddler nutrition programme delivered online by our specialised paediatric dietitian, Karen Greer. This programme is specifically designed for preschool children aged 1-5 years old, and will teach and empower you to optimise your child’s nutritional intake by introducing healthy nutritional habits to support your child’s growth and development, while managing challenges including food refusal and fussy eating.
The toddler and pre-school years are a time of rapid growth and development. Did you know that by the age of three years, an infant’s brain has grown from 25% of its approximate adult size at birth to 80% of its final adult size? This is why good nutrition is essential for supporting this vital early childhood development.
It is very common for young children to develop strong taste preferences and particular dislikes which can make meal times challenging and stressful for parents/carers, especially when it leads to food refusal. Our Growing With Every Bite Programme will teach you how to manage fussy eating and food refusal, whilst keeping meal and snack times fun and enjoyable for everyone and ensuring your child is getting the right nutrition.
What’s Included?
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Session 1 - Healthy Eating for Optimal growth
- Understand the role of energy and nutrition for children
- Consider key nutrients for young children and how their requirements are different to adults
- Better understand how your child’s nutritional requirements change as they grow
- Discuss any concerns you have around your child’s current nutritional intake including food preferences and food refusals
Session 2 - Portion sizes & meal planning
- Understand appropriate portion sizes for your child
- Understand how children regulate hunger and why this can sometimes appear as food refusal
- Top tips to make meal time more enjoyable
- Explore new ways to encourage your child to try new foods
Session 3 – Managing food refusal & fussy eating
- Better understand food refusal/fussy eating
- Explore triggers and reasons for food refusal
- Practical tips to reduce stress at meal and snack times
- Step by step tips to help your child
Session 4 – Food refusal: keeping the changes going
- Explore new strategies to help increase variety of foods accepted
- Managing changes of routine including - including holiday period
- Getting all the family involved
- Putting it all together - maintaining long term changes
Why Choose Spectrum
Our team of CORU registered dietitians are highly experienced and skilled to guide and empower you in making long-term changes to help you and your family achieve your health and nutrition goals. Our team pride themselves in providing the most up-to-date, research-backed approaches to help you optimise your and your family’s health and nutrition.
Our paediatric nutrition services are led by registered dietitian and INDI member Karen Greer, who is also the lead dietitian at Spectrum Nutrition, and specialises in a range of areas including children’s nutrition, with over four years of experience devoted solely to paediatrics.
How To Book
Once you purchase the programme you will then be able to book your four sessions at the date and times that suit you. You can get in touch with your Patient Services Team, available Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm and Saturday from 8am to 4pm, by emailing or phoning if you require further information. Find out more about our video appointments here.
Still not sure? You can schedule a free call back here to find out more.