Nutrition through the different Paediatric Stages

Course Content

- Nutrition in the first year of life: milk feeding, weaning: baby fed and baby led.
- Feeding in the early years, Facing the feeding challenges
- Nutrition in older children: Practical ways how to prepare balanced meals and snacks.
- Food hypersensitivity: Allergies & Intolerances in children
- Eating behaviours (including Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders)

By the end of these sessions, participants will be able to:

• Identify the main features of a healthy balanced diet in a child
• Understand the role of nutrition in the overall health and wellbeing of children
• Deal with the nutritional requirements and feeding challenges at the different paediatric stages
• Identify the right strategies to deal with each paediatric nutrition/feeding challenge.
• Ensure that children following alternative diets do not experience deficiencies of macro- or micronutrients.
• Apply the paediatric care required when dealing with nutrition/feeding challenges.
• Recognize how nutrition education can take place within the family, schools, and other settings