Lively Eaters Feeding Therapy

Emily and her fabulous team helped us wean our son off tube feeding, providing step by step guidance through both intensive and longer term tele-health engagement. They are friendly, understanding and extremely professional, setting a high bar for wholistic care of the whole family. They effortlessly adapted to our particular family circumstances and provided one of the best health care experiences I've ever had. Highly recommended!
Feb 13th, 2023

My little one, Josh, was tube fed from birth and when he was ready to wean, we chose to wean with Lively Eaters. Josh saw Gemma and Georgina over our journey and I can't put in words how happy my partner and I have been with their services. In just over 6 months, Josh went from having a few spoons of pureed food to eating 3 meals, 2 snacks and a milk drink and is now off his NGT. We completed the wean at home in Victoria by telehealth and their support was great. The combination of having a Dietitian and a speech pathologist looking after us was excellent. I would highly recommend Lively Eaters.
Feb 5th, 2023

Money hungry, dont actually care about the children but rather racking up appointments. Additionally I was charged an astronomical non attendance fee when I called in the morning to let them know my son had woken with a runny nose and ask their preference as to whether I attend or not due to Covid restrictions. I was told not to attend and subsequently still charged. I would not recommend this business. Horrendous.
Feb 19th, 2022

Amazing! Could not recommend enough! We engaged Lively Eaters when our son was 19 months old in regards to their Intensive Tube Weaning Program. After medical complications, our son had been reliant on a Nasal Gastric Tube (NGT) and had developed oral aversion. Before seeking out Lively Eaters we had worked with multiple therapists, however reactive therapy approaches had left us unable to reduce NGT feeds by more than 10%. We started working with Lively Eaters via teleheath, concentrating on techniques to build the mental connection between feeling hungry/full and food. This was the turning point in our son's therapy. From here we were able to drop his NGT volumes, and 2 weeks post completion of the Intensive Tube Weaning Program, we removed the NGT and have not looked back! Lively Eaters use of a multidisciplinary team provided a family centric approach. This not only helped cultivate our sons trust and interest in oral feeding, but provided the counselling and framework for us to let go of the reigns, and put our son in the driving seat of his own appetite. 4.5 months on and he has put on on 600gms and 4 cm all under his own steam! If you are thinking about it - go for it! You wont regret it!
Jan 17th, 2022

I would probably be lost if I didnt decide to contact Lively Eaters! My son was naso-gastric tube fed from birth until 18 months old, taking nothing at all orally and suffering oral and facial aversions from medical trauma. For 18 months I thought that it would be nearly impossible to get him to eat, and I did a year of personal research including phoning some experts in America, not knowing that we had experts in Adelaide! Emily and her team were just amazing! They are all so knowledgeable in child feeding issues and very professional in their safe delivery of an effective rapid wean program. They became part of our lives for a week and my boy successfully and permanently came off of his tube and became an eater. 12 months on and he is going from strength to strength. Were thankful every day for the removal of the tube, it has given him better quality of life and more confidence and I know hell thrive later on because we acted at the right time!
Apr 18th, 2021