A child needs to build trust: when children trust food and those feeding them they have a strong foundation for eating in the future.

A child who isn't eating doesn't have the fuel they need to regulate. And an unregulated child often can't eat.

A trained speech pathologist, working with children every day—and still completely unprepared for what feeding challenges actually look like at home. Five years ago, that was me. This is the beginning of a different way of understanding children who don’t eat—and the families supporting them.