06/08/2025
Food before one is NOT just for fun!
While milk remains a baby's main source of nutrition until a year of age, eating solids successfully before then is important for several reasons:
1. Solids provide crucial additional micronutrients (e.g. iron). 🥦
2. Eating and chewing are learned skills. Children need opportunities to practise these oral-motor skills with different textures and consistencies. 👄
3. Sensory exploration is needed to help prevent texture aversions and picky eating. Exposure to different tastes, smells, and texture, particularly in a baby-led manner, goes a long way in creating healthy eating habits. 👍
Feeding therapy can address concerns with introducing solids, difficulty transitioning to different consistencies, picky eating, food aversions, difficulty chewing, pocketing food, etc.
Reach out with questions or concerns! 📞📧💬
