- Dropdown Widget
Diet-related Conditions
Weight management for the whole family
Dieting or not sharing foods with other family members, can feel difficult and upsetting at a deep and unconscious level.Disordered Eating in Teens
Most young people comfort eat at some point, we all do, because food feels nice and when we eat, neurochemicals like dopamine are released into the bloodstream, making us feel good. It’s absolutely normal to comfort eat from time to time.Gastrointestinal Symptoms
Constipation describes from the slow movement of poo through the bowel, which is affected by body movement, food, fibre and fluid intake, breath, stress & anxiety, repeated illness and the quality of the gut microbiota.Feeding Behaviours in Early & School Years
Feeding behaviours respond well to a framework of structure, nurture & boundaries, including feeding difficulties, toddler refusal and ARFIDFeeding Difficulties in Infancy
Feeding difficulties include a range of scenarios where infants are not willing to feed in order to meet their nutritional needs.Cows Milk Difficulties
Cow’s Milk Allergy affects 1 in 20 infants in their first year of life. It is a spectrum condition, with a wide range of presentations, sometimes difficult to distinguish from other common problems in infancy.Dietary Treatment Tools
Structure Nurture and Boundaries
Carine uses this framework in all the work she does with infants, children, teens and families. She acts as nutrition educator, guide and supporter, providing resources and strategic tools.Benefits of Diet Diversity
A diverse diet is the single most valuable way of meeting a child’s nutritional needs. The first nutritional need for a child to thrive well is energy.
- Dietary Treatment
- Dropdown Widget
Diet-related Conditions
Weight management for the whole family
Dieting or not sharing foods with other family members, can feel difficult and upsetting at a deep and unconscious level.Disordered Eating in Teens
Most young people comfort eat at some point, we all do, because food feels nice and when we eat, neurochemicals like dopamine are released into the bloodstream, making us feel good. It’s absolutely normal to comfort eat from time to time.Gastrointestinal Symptoms
Constipation describes from the slow movement of poo through the bowel, which is affected by body movement, food, fibre and fluid intake, breath, stress & anxiety, repeated illness and the quality of the gut microbiota.Feeding Behaviours in Early & School Years
Feeding behaviours respond well to a framework of structure, nurture & boundaries, including feeding difficulties, toddler refusal and ARFIDFeeding Difficulties in Infancy
Feeding difficulties include a range of scenarios where infants are not willing to feed in order to meet their nutritional needs.Cows Milk Difficulties
Cow’s Milk Allergy affects 1 in 20 infants in their first year of life. It is a spectrum condition, with a wide range of presentations, sometimes difficult to distinguish from other common problems in infancy.Dietary Treatment Tools
Structure Nurture and Boundaries
Carine uses this framework in all the work she does with infants, children, teens and families. She acts as nutrition educator, guide and supporter, providing resources and strategic tools.Benefits of Diet Diversity
A diverse diet is the single most valuable way of meeting a child’s nutritional needs. The first nutritional need for a child to thrive well is energy.
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Making Mealtimes Better : Structure, Nurture & Boundaries
Accessible and full of sensible evidence-based information to support feeding young children well, Making Mealtimes Better is on-line workshop series is designed for parents/carers of young children with a variety of food-related behaviours. Delivered by Carine Henry RD, paediatric specialist dietitian, with 30 years of practical working with children and families, in areas of feeding difficulties, growth faltering and tummy troubles.
Making Mealtimes Better provides a space alongside others to listen, learn, share, practice and develop tools and select strategies to make every mealtime better. Carine uses themes of Structure, Nurture and Boundaries to guide topics including:
- meeting your child’s nutritional needs : key nutrients and food groups
- expanding food experience : where you are now, next steps and forward planning
- giving right attention to food and feeding
- learning to enjoy food and feeding : agency and satisfaction
- awareness of how emotions impact food, feeding and caring/parenting
Making Mealtimes Better is intended for young children with heightened sensitivity to foods and feeding, and where nutritional wellbeing and growth may be compromised, such as those experiencing :
- food refusal, feeding aversion, food fears, feeding anxieties
- prolonged difficulty with expanding to mixed textures of food
- difficulty introducing new foods and & limited experience of a range of foods
- prolonged illness at developmentally important phases in feeding
- highly selective eating and sensory difficulties
- tantrums at the table, difficult feeding behaviours
In working in this topic, making changes needs a willingness to make change, and the resources to do so … I aim to provide some useful tools. For example applying mindfulness to parenting is about parenting intentionally, and working with being the parent you’d like to be. It’s about being able to press your pause button, when your young child behaves the way they do, noticing what your reactions are and choosing how to respond.
