Pediatrics

Our pediatric team comes to us following several years caring for patients on the maternity, pediatric, and special care nursery wards of a Mass General Brigham hospital. Now we’re bringing clinical pediatric expertise to you in the community with an individualized approach to support our youngest eaters (and their families!). Pediatric counseling sessions are based in researched, current medical recommendations for optimal growth, development, and well-being from birth through adolescence.

Whether you’re seeking help with a new medical diagnosis, or striving to build happy feeding relationships from the start, our enthusiastic, age appropriate counseling can support your family across multiple milestones.

Specialties/areas of practice:

Perinatal nutrition

Breastfeeding or formula feeding optimization and complementary foods

First foods and early feeding practices

Post SCN or NICU discharge follow up

Accelerating/Decelerating growth trends & Failure to Thrive

Allergies, intolerances and dietary restrictions

GI concerns

“Picky eating” prevention and reversal

Adolescent independence in reaching nutrition goals

Disordered eating prevention

Family meal planning and dining

 
 

Bloom Program

Our fast-tracked approach to solving selective eating patterns and gently bringing the whole family to the table, while removing stigma and habits that don’t serve our next generation of confident eaters. This 6 week program offers targeted lessons catering specifically to your child and family* with real time feedback and action planning from our pediatric dietitian. No short term fixes here; we offer habit change strategies that can grow with your child across life stages.

*Special attention is paid to observe dietary restrictions and other medical or social background impacting your unique home eating environment.

 

This program may be for you if…

  • You’re getting ready to have your youngest eater join you at the table for meals

  • You’re concerned you have a cautious or “picky eater” on your hands

  • You’ve become a short order cook for your family

  • You are hoping to work with a dietitian but aren’t sure you have time for a longer counseling commitment

Includes

  • One on one (or family-on-one!) counseling sessions with our pediatric registered dietitian

  • Weekly handouts with important reminders, meal and snack ideas, schedules, and meal planning tools

  • Weekly family worksheets and activity planners for increasing positive food interactions and consumption

  • Creative solutions to budget and time constraints, reluctant table sitters, and food waste

  • Extensive instruction in balanced, non-diet approaches to nourish the whole family

  • Supportive vocabulary for helping kids learn and talk about food and their bodies