1-1 Child Nutritionist Support
Many parents (and caregivers) have questions or concerns
about how to feed their baby, toddler or child,
or deal with the challenges of feeding their little ones.
What I do
Using my extensive psychology background, I focus on what we as parents and caregivers can do to create lifelong healthy eating habits for our children.
Do you have questions or concerns
about feeding your baby, toddler or child;
or how they eat?
Would you like:
Straightforward, practical, positive strategies
you can start implementing straight away;
starting with how your child(ren) eat at the moment
Child Nutritionist Support
to grow your own Happy, Healthy Eaters
including:
- Weaning babies onto solids including When to Start Weaning and How to Wean.
- Establishing healthy eating habits for kids and How to Avoid Picky Eating.
- Ensure your child(ren) eat and enjoy a variety of food
- Create lifelong healthy eating habits, such as a moderate approach to sugar.
- Dealing with specific issues such as the challenges of packed lunches and evening meals, especially dinner.
- Everyday challenges when feeding toddlers including how to avoid constant snacking.
- Limited diets due to conditions such as reflux, allergies and intolerances.
- Developing Intuitive Eaters and and fostering a Positive Relationship with food for our children
- Concern about a child’s weight (currently or in the future)
- Reducing stress at mealtimes when feeding children
Imagine after the Healthy Eating Power Hour, you will have
- Straightforward, practical, positive strategies you can start implementing straight away;
starting with what your child(ren) eat and how they eat at the moment - Specific understanding, knowledge, and skills to support your child(ren)s’ eating
- More confidence knowing what is best to say and do
Colette suggested some great, practical ways of preventing this happening like making the dinner less overwhelming and how best to engage her and the best things to say.
These suggestions were all easy to implement so now everyone is much more relaxed at dinner time.
I found Colette's help great and even in the first 2 sessions I got a lot of the help I needed to ensure my kids are eating much better, especially at meal times.
Colette suggested as straightforward changes, that I would never have thought of, but when she suggested them they really clicked with me.
Thank you so much for your time and listening during our sessions, as well as your advice;
it was definitely the most helpful of everyone we have met.
How does it work?
- Growing Healthy Eaters has a parent- led approach; focusing on what you say and do around feeding
- But my approach is also child-centred – we don’t expect your child to do anything that they aren’t comfortable with, at that time.
- Expert advice on food parenting, that is positive and gentle
What do you get?
- Support from a Child Nutritionist
through 1-1 consultations in–person or online (Zoom/Microsoft Teams) - Each consultation lasts up to 60 minutes.
- This is followed by personalised recommendations and step-by-step action plan, sent by email.
Frequently Asked Questions
Some parents contact me and would like a little personalised support, for example, with a specific problem such as allergies and intolerances.
Over the last number of years working with me, many parents have reported that a small number of changes can make a huge difference.
I now empower parents every week to transform their children eating and create lifelong healthy eating habits for babies, toddlers and children.
Most of the work I get asked to do is to help parents successfully reverse fussy eating.
But I also want to help prevent these problems developing in the first place so I also offer expert advice to prevent fussy eating and ensure it does not become a long-term habit.Â
I’m Dr Colette Reynolds, a Mum of 2 young boys, based in Galway, on the west coast of Ireland.
I have an extensive training in Psychology and Health Promotion(up to PhD), as well as Nutrition Coaching and Food Parenting. I have previously worked with the Irish Cancer Society and lectured in Public Health and Psychology.
There is lots of information freely available to help us feed our children better; but some of this is conflicting, some is not evidence-based, and some is very general.
Unfortunately healthy eating doesn’t happen automatically for lots of little ones.
That’s why its great to be proactive to ensure your little ones are happy, healthy eaters; rather than leaving it to chance
Or the earlier you start, the easier and quicker it is to grow happy, healthy eaters,
so it’s a great idea to seek  a little expert help
rather than hoping your child’s eating will improve by itself.
