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Baby Led Feeding-Exclusive Baby Sleep with Ainslee

Thu, 20 Nov

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Start Solids and continue solids with confidence! Feeling overwhelmed about starting solids? New Zealand's leading paediatric dietitian Rachael Wilson is here to help! Learn how to recognise your baby’s readiness, choose the right foods, and create positive mealtimes from the first bite.


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Baby Led Feeding-Exclusive Baby Sleep with Ainslee
Baby Led Feeding-Exclusive Baby Sleep with Ainslee

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20 Nov 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Baby Led Feeding-Baby Sleep with Ainslee

Event details

Feeling overwhelmed by all the conflicting advice about starting solids? Join us for "Baby Led Feeding", an online workshop that will empower you to confidently guide your baby through their first bites and beyond. New Zealand's leading Paediatric dietitian and feeding specialist Rachael Wilson will share responsive feeding techniques that focus on how to feed your baby, not just what to feed them.


Your step-by-step workshop includes:

  • How to know when your baby is developmentally ready to start solids

  • What to look for in a high chair, plus spoons, bowls, and utensils you’ll actually need

  • How to cook and prepare foods for your baby’s first meals, and what to expect the first time you feed them (Hint: it’s not a lot of eating!)

  • Understanding and following your baby’s developmental cues—learn how to navigate meals, milk feeds, suitable textures, variety

  • Understanding key feeding milestones while offering foods that match their readiness for new textures.


This workshop is for you if:

  • You're unsure about which foods to start with

  • You want to avoid choking risks and feed your baby safely

  • You want to know how to prevent Iron deficiency

  • You're aiming to raise a child who enjoys mealtime and eats a wide variety of foods

  • You need advice on managing high-allergy-risk foods

  • You want to feel empowered, not overwhelmed, by feeding your baby

  • You want to set your child up with a positive relationship with food and their body and raise a competent and mindful eater from the first bite.


The workshop will also include plenty of practical tips and resources like recipes, food prep ideas, and high chair reviews. We’ll cut through the sea of information and help you feel confident every step of the way.


Plus, the event will be recorded, and you'll have access to the recording for two weeks afterward—so you can revisit the material whenever you need!


Sign up now to start your solids journey with confidence!





Equity-Based Ticketing Policy for The Baby Led Feeding Workshop:

At The Food Tree, we believe in making our workshops accessible to everyone while also ensuring that those who have the means to pay more can support those with less financial flexibility. To achieve this, we are offering a tiered ticketing system that allows participants to select a pricing tier based on their financial situation and recent holiday experiences.


Please select the tier that best reflects your current circumstances:

Tier 1: Overseas Holiday Pricing

For individuals or families who have taken or are planning to take an overseas holiday this year. By choosing Tier 1, you are helping to subsidise the costs for those who are in less financially stable situations. Your support ensures that more families can access this important workshop.


Tier 2: Domestic Holiday Pricing

For individuals or families who have taken or are planning a holiday within their home country this year. This mid-tier option reflects moderate financial flexibility while still ensuring the workshop remains affordable for those who might need extra support.


Tier 3: No Holiday Pricing

For individuals or families who have not been able to take a holiday this year, either domestically or internationally, due to financial constraints. We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to attend, regardless of their financial situation. This lower-cost ticket is designed to keep the workshop accessible for those with limited financial resources.

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Rachael Wilson

Paediatric and Eating Disorder Dietitian &
Family Feeding Specialist

Rachael is a UK-trained, New Zealand Registered Dietitian with over 20 years of clinical experience. She specialises in paediatric feeding difficulties, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), eating disorders and neurodivergent feeding experiences, supporting children, adolescents, adults and their families.

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Her professional background includes extensive specialist training in paediatric feeding and eating disorders, including Responsive Feeding Therapy, the SOS Approach to Feeding, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders and Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia. She is also an Ellyn Satter Institute Affiliate Child Feeding Affiliate with additional training in trauma-informed care, neurodiversity-affirming feeding practices and mindfulness for children.

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Drawing on her extensive clinical experience and understanding of nutrition, feeding development, neurodivergence and emotional wellbeing, Rachael developed the ARFID Empowerment Model™ (AEM).

 

The model integrates evidence-informed approaches within a practical, neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed framework, helping clinicians look beyond food intake to understand the underlying factors influencing feeding and eating difficulties.

Don't miss out on the training!

Here's what other parents are saying about The Food Tree approach

Isabelle Vincent

“The AEM is hands down the most comprehensive course currently available to professionals in the feeding space. The content is varied, with lecture-style presentations, videos and a membership hub where learning can take place at your own pace.

 

Rachael’s immense expertise and holistic philosophy are beautifully woven throughout the course. I cannot recommend it highly enough!”

Kate Zame

Speech and Language Therapist NZ

“This course takes you on a journey to look at the big picture and explore the deeper questions behind why a child does not eat. It considers questions around identity, belonging, feeling safe and capacity for change.

 

The course provides a place to explore and challenge assumptions about feeding that can be embedded in professional practice, bringing those working in this field to a fresh understanding of what is needed to effect change.”

“I found the AEM approach open, inspiring and liberating. It creates space to wonder, explore and challenge established ways of thinking. It’s already making me rethink how I interview and work with families.”

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The Food Tree is a specialist dietitian practice providing compassionate, evidence-based nutrition support for children, adolescents and adults. We specialise in ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder), paediatric feeding difficulties, neurodiversity-affirming nutrition for autism and ADHD, eating disorders, body image, family feeding and responsive feeding therapy. We also provide professional training, workshops and education for health professionals, schools and early childhood educators. Supporting individuals, families and professionals across New Zealand through in-person and online services.

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