No more picky eating!!!

Bay area and Mountain View parents! Is this scenario familiar to you? You make dinner for your family. You serve dinner. Your kid refuses everything on the plate. You make dinner for your kid.

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You are prepare a “special meal” for your kid. They don’t eat it. Your kid eats the same food for 2 weeks. Today they refuse it.

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You have every Pinterest page related to feeding in your bookmarks. You have every cut out known to man for making animals out of food. Your kid is eating while watching a video on your phone. Your spoon feeding your 3 year old.

The list goes on and on. Kids can be picky eaters. People have individual food preferences. Parents are tired and frustrated.

When is it picky eating? When is it problem feeding?

Once all medical factors have been ruled out, if your child is eating at least 20 different foods but is selective about the types of foods- that’s probably picky eating. It can get better. It’s gonna take work.

Your child is eating less than 30 different foods. Foods are not re-acquired after a break from them. Your child is having meltdowns when new foods are presented. Your child is refusing entire categories of food textures or nutritional groups (ex. chewy foods, meats, veggies, or soft cubed foods). This is considered a problem feeder. It gets better too with help. A lot of work needs to happen.

Help for Eating

There is help! Did you know there are 32 steps to feeding? Eating is not the first step. The Sequential Oral Sensory Approach to feeding (SOS) is a nationally recognized program which uses a systematic hierarchy to reach the ultimate goal of eating. A trained professional helps guide the caregivers to have success in eating a variety of new foods. It works!!

Meals can be happy!

Using a combination of individually tailored programming for your child’s needs, a trained therapist can help your child to eat a variety of new foods and make your meals a more comfortable and relaxed event of the day.

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