The Childrens Feeding Clinic - For Feeding Problems in Babies and Children, London

Welcome

Feeding difficulties in babies, toddlers and children are common. Feeding difficulties can potentially result in poor growth and suboptimal development. It can also cause considerable family stress.

We offer a multidisciplinary approach to the assessment and management of spectrum of feeding problems in babies and children with and without underlying disease difficulties. We support children to achieve their full potential with eating and drinking development We also provide support to parents in managing stressful situations around meal times.

Babies and children are referred to our clinic due to :

Poor weight gain
Food refusal
Colic/gastroesophageal reflux disease
Sleeping problems
Fussy eating
Difficulty weaning
Vomiting/positing
Discomfort with feeding
Presumed Food intolerances/ allergies
Difficulty in progression of food textures
Swallowing difficulties
Sucking and chewing difficulties
Breast feeding difficulties
Weaning children of nasogastric and gastrostomy feeding
Constipation

Our services aims to be:

Approachable: Parents feel comfortable in sharing information and discussing treatment plans with members of the team
Accessible: Appointments can be offered within one week of referral and all team members can be contacted to discuss their child’s treatment
Efficient: Treatment aims to support children and families in a time and cost efficient manner
Effective: Treatment is evidenced based following years of experience in the field of paediatric feeding difficulties. Our programme starts with an initial multidisciplinary assessment. Assessment can also entail a home based feeding observation by our speech and language therapist. Following the initial consultation an individualised treatment programme and/or further assessment in the form of medical examinations is devised according to the child's needs.