Self Care Season: Feeding Skills
From Belle’s OT Corner by Belle
November 23, 2025 · 44 min · Season 5 · Episode 3
About this episode
This episode explores how various factors like posture and sensory processing affect feeding skills in children and offers practical strategies for calmer mealtimes.
The fastest way to make mealtimes calmer isn’t a new gadget; it’s seeing what’s really happening beneath the spills. In this week's episode We unpack how posture, coordination, attention, and sensory processing shape every bite, and why small, smart changes can turn chaos into progress without power struggles or pressure. We start with setup and posture, how this can impact on our ability to access feeding. We chat through the importance of mess and simple strategies to bring into mealtimes....
People in this episode
Host: Belle
Topics covered
- mealtime strategies
- feeding skills
- posture
- sensory processing
- child development
Keywords
- feeding skills
- mealtime calmness
- posture
- coordination
- sensory processing
- child feeding
- mealtime strategies
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