Children’s Nutrition
Allow our family and pediatric dietitian and nutritionist assist you in the critically important task of making sure your kids receive professional pediatric nutrition guidance, so they can grow into healthy and robust adults.
Pediatric Dietitian Services
At JM Nutrition we offer the services of family and children’s nutritionists and dietitians, each with his or her area of expertise.
Our team provides nutritional support for:
✓ Infants
✓ Young children
✓ Teenagers
✓ Young athletes
✓ Families
How Can A Nutritionist or Dietitian For Kids Help?
A dietitian and nutritionist for kids can help children, parents and families in a number of ways.
- Provide general healthy eating advice.
- Prepare a balanced eating plan for healthy growth and development.
- Educate kids and teens how much food someone of their size, age, and gender needs to eat to be healthy.
- Help manage various dietary conditions (food allergies, sensitivities, intolerances) and specialty diets.
- Receive tips and strategies for dealing with picky eaters.
- Generate healthy and delicious recipes based on foods kids enjoy eating.
- Receive guidance in transitioning to solids.
- Create a meal plan to manage various digestive problems and gastrointestinal conditions (e.g., constipation).
- Provide a nutritionally balanced plan for young athletes that coincides with the given sporting discipline.
- Lay out guidelines for healthy weight management, including matters pertaining to obesity.
- Help establish an anti-inflammatory diet for a variety of conditions.
- Reveal healthier food substitutions for favourite ‘challenging’ foods.
- Provide nutritious meal options for the whole family.
- Give support to children who demonstrate disordered eating patterns.
- Help manage Anorexia Nervosa & Anorexia Athletica, Bulimia, ARFID and binge eating behaviour.
- Orthorexia (unhealthy obsession with healthy eating).
- Help children, particularly teenagers, develop a healthier relationship with food.
- Nutrition myth busting (combating unhealthy recommendations children may read online).
- Assist whole families with the development of healthier eating habits.
- And more.
Our Family and Children’s Nutritionist and Dietitian Works With:
- infants
- boys
- girls
- teenagers
- athletes
- expectant mothers (visit pre- & post-natal nutrition)
- new mothers (visit pre- & post-natal nutrition & women’s health)
- families
- and more
Our Dietitians Who Focus On Pediatric Nutrition
Dietitians For Infants, Children & Families
JM Nutrition’s registered dietitians who work with children (infants, young children and teenagers) are Jordan Thompson, Ola Pabjas and Lyndsay Hall.
Dietitians For Adolescents With Disordered Eating
Our registered dietitians, Maya Daaboul and Sierra Steele, also work with teenagers to help them develop a more healthy relationship food and/or to manage disordered eating patterns. Visit our support for disordered eating and eating disorders page for more information.
Dietitians For Young Athletes
In addition, we have two dietitians (Kyle Butler, Johnny Zhang, Austin McNally & Sierra Steele) who focus on fitness and sports nutrition, working with young athletes to tweak their eating habits pertaining to athletic goals. Visit our fitness & sports nutrition support page for more information.
How It Works
1. 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.
2. Book a virtual or on-site, in-person appointment.
3. Fill out the intake form and send it back to us prior to the appointment.
4. Important: The appointment is typically 1-hour long, unless you 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.
Learn more about packages & pricing for adults.
4. Depending on the age, your child does not have to be present during the appointment.
5. Next, our 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
How much does it cost to work with a pediatric dietitian and nutritionist?
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).
Again, if your child is approaching the adulthood, you may consider the packages and pricing that apply to adults.
In-Person Appointments with a Pediatric Dietitian
Our children’s nutritionists and dietitians service clients in-person from our office locations.
Also Available For Virtual Counselling
In addition to servicing clients in-person our dietitians and nutritionists who specialize in pediatric nutrition also conduct sessions virtually with clients from across Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and beyond, using a number of video-conferencing platforms.
Learn more about nutritional counselling with an online nutritionist and dietitian.
Get In Touch Using Email or Contact Form
Contact us for a no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
✓ outline how working with a child nutritionist and dietitian looks like
✓ discuss your and/or your child’s goal(s)
✓ explain how billing and pricing work
✓ address concerns about insurance, if any
✓ answer any other questions
Popular Children’s & Family Nutrition Blog Posts
Does Your Kid Need A Multivitamin? JM Nutrition’s Registered Dietitian, Lyndsay Hall, appearing in Today’s Parent