Nutrition therapy can help with feeding struggles, weight concerns, and challenges associated with developmental delays. Sometimes, feeding problems can be associated with positive and and negative changes in a child’s life such as the aftermath of surgery, a change of residence, divorce, a new school or other changes that have created resistant feeding in your child.

For parents of young children, it means that techniques from family dynamics are employed along with attachment and child development theory. These theories of development and family life let parents understand the child’s point of view. When the child sees the parent change, the child often feels freer to eat well.

For parents of atypically developing children, pediatric nutrition therapy offers a way into feeding problems. Feeding challenges in young children can confuse because physical, developmental and behavioral problems appear with similar symptoms. Tapping into the child’s and family’s strengths.  Pediatric nutrition therapy taps into the child’s inner drive towards mastery irrespective of the child’s outer condition.

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