Dietitian and Nutritionist for Pediatric Nutrition
Nutritional support of a registered dietitian and nutritionist for children of all ages
Allow our dietitian and nutritionist for pediatric nutrition assist you in the critically important task of making sure your child receives professional guidance, so they can grow into healthy and robust adults. Our dietitians and nutritionists work with children of all ages as well as their parents.
Can a dietitian and nutritionist help children?
Yes, a qualified registered dietitian and nutritionist can help children by ensuring that their diet is nutritionally balanced for optimum health, growth and development.
How can a pediatric nutrition dietitian and nutritionist help children and parents?
A pediatric care dietitian and nutritionist can assess your child’s diet, provide education and implement various nutritional interventions for healthy growth and development.
Specifically, a dietitian who focuses in children’s nutrition can help in the following ways:
- Provide education: A nutritionist and dietitian can provide fundamental education about nutritional needs of children at any stage of growth. That is, educate young children and their parents how much food someone of their size, age, and gender needs to eat to be healthy.
- Assess current diet of child: Have your child’s diet assessed by a registered dietitian to ensure all nutritional needs are met.
- Assist with healthy lunches: Provide tips and strategies for making and packing healthy school lunches.
- Help build a healthy relationship with food: A children’s nutritionist can also help establish and maintain a healthy feeding relationship and positive body image.
- Prepare an eating plan: Working with you a dietitian can help prepare a balanced eating plan or meal guide aimed at healthy growth and development of your child.
- Address picky eating behaviour: Receive tips and strategies from a pediatric dietitian and nutritionist for picky eaters.
- Support allergies: A pediatric dietitian can also help manage various dietary conditions: food allergies, sensitivities, intolerances.
- Assist with growth faltering
- Help address iron deficiency anemia
- Create a meal plan: An RD can create a tailored meal plan to manage various digestive conditions (e.g., constipation) and food preferences (e.g., gluten-free, plant-based, low-sugar).
- Provide recipes for children: A kids’ dietitian and nutritionist can generate healthy and delicious recipes based on foods young kids enjoy eating, if desired.
- Suggest food substitutions: A counsellor who specializes in children’s nutrition can also provide more nutritious food substitutions for their favourite foods.
- Address family nutrition needs: Allow a child dietitian and nutritionist to provide nutritious meal options for the whole family.
- Provide nutritional support for ADHD: Help manage Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other brain and mental health nutrition concerns such nutritional support for sleep, manage disordered eating behaviour et al.
- Help manage weight: Lay out guidelines for healthy pediatric weight management, including matters pertaining to childhood obesity management.
- Provide support to get children involved in making healthy choices: Provide tips on how to get children involved in the kitchen, making snacks and meals.
- Help address other health concerns: Receive nutritional counselling with nutriitonist for skin health: e.g., nutritionist and dietitian for acne
- Work with young athletes: Our sports nutritionists also provide support for young athletes.
- Make diet and lifestyle recommendations: Receive various diet and lifestyle recommendations and tips for healthy growth and development of your child.
- Work in conjunction with other medical professionals: A dietitian also work with medical doctors and other professionals to help support your child’s health.
- And more.
What other types of services does a pediatric nutritionist and dietitian offer?
At JM Nutrition we offer the services of children’s nutritionists and dietitians, each with his or her area of expertise.
Our Dietitians and Nutritionists for Children's Nutrition Support
Carol Holland, Pediatric Nutrition
Services: ON, AB, SK, NS, NB & the Territories
Carol offers support in the following areas:
- Introducing solids
- Growth faltering
- Picky eating (SOS Approach to Feeding)
- Post-natal support
Lyndsay Hall, Children's Dietitian
Services: ON, NS, NB & the Territories
Lyndsay offers support in the following areas:
- Family meal planning
- General pediatric nutrition support
- Post-natal nutrition support
- And more
Kristina Dunkley, Pediatric Care Dietitian
Services: ON, NS, NB & the Territories
Kristina offers support in the following areas:
- Feeding difficulties
- Picky eating and food aversions
- Childhood obesity
- Transitioning to solids
- Tube feeding and blenderized tube feeds
- Breastfeeding support
- Nutritional support for autism
- and more
Judy Chodirker, Child Nutritionist and Dietitian
Services: ON, NS, NB & the Territories
Judy offers support in the following areas:
- Dietitian support babies and mothers
- Picky eating behaviour management
- Feeding relationship
- Development of healthy body image
- Family nutrition and meal planning
Natalie Fraser, Dietitian for Young Athletes
Services: ON, NS, NB & the Territories
Natalie offers support in the following areas:
- Family meal planning
- Meal planning for athletes
- Nutritional support for athletes 6+ years old
Megan Couturier, Dietitian for Young Athletes
Services: ON, NS, NB & the Territories
Megan offers pediatric nutrition support in the following areas:
- Family meal planning
- Nutritional support for athletes 14+ years
Learn about our pediatric dietitian and nutritionist team
Who does our children’s nutritionist and dietitian work with?
- Newborns, infants, toddlers
- Athletes
- Boys
- Expectant mothers
- Girls
- New mothers
- Teenagers
- Families
Work with a pediatric dietitian
Select the practitioner whose specialty you feel best suits the needs of your child. If you require guidance in this area, we can certainly help. Book free consultation.
Contact us to request an appointment with one of our pediatric dietitians and nutritionists.
Fill out the intake form and return it back to us prior to the appointment.
Important: The appointment with a pediatric dietitian is typically 1-hour long, unless your child is approaching the adult age. In this case, he or she may fall under the packages and pricing guidelines for adults. We encourage you to make this decision with your adolescent child.
Children’s Fees: The fee for one session and email follow-up with resources with a registered dietitian who focuses on pediatric nutrition is $175 (this service is tax exempt).
If your child is approaching the adult age, you may consider the packages and pricing that apply to adults.
Learn more about packages & pricing for adults.
Depending on the age, your child does not have to be present during the appointment.
After the appointment our pediatric dietitian will conduct an email follow-up.
The email will include valuable information and resources:
- a summary of appointment session notes
- kid-friendly meal ideas & recipes (including plant-based options, if desired)
- picky eating behaviour strategies
- tips on how to increase vegetable intake
- help with meal scheduling
- other pertinent information
Should you want to book more ongoing sessions, you can certainly do so.
Free Consultation
Schedule a free, no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
- Outline how the process works
- Discuss your goal(s)
- Explain how billing and pricing work
- Address concerns about insurance
- Help you select a practitioner
- Answer any other questions
- And more
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How much does a dietitian for pediatric support cost?
The fee for a personalized session and email follow-up with resources with a registered dietitian who focuses on pediatric nutrition is $175 (this service is tax exempt).
If your child is approaching the adult age, you may consider the packages and pricing that apply to adults.
Where to Find Our Dietitian and Nutritionist for Pediatric Nutrition Support
You can book an appointment with a pediatric nutrition dietitian and nutritionist in-person at one of our locations in Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia at one of the below offices.
Office Locations
Virtual Support for Pediatric Nutrition
Our dietitians and nutritionist for children’s nutrition support also conduct online nutritional counselling sessions.
For more information on the services offered in each city and service area, visit:
Popular Children’s Nutrition Blog Posts
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