Little Eaters & Talkers

Little Eaters & Talkers At Little Eaters & Talkers, our team of Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and Occupational Therapists (OTs) help children thrive at every stage of feeding.

We support families in the Houston area and virtually,

Does your baby arch away, cry, and turn their head the second the bottle comes near — but feed just fine when they're ha...
09/07/2026

Does your baby arch away, cry, and turn their head the second the bottle comes near — but feed just fine when they're half asleep?

That's not fussiness. It has a name, and it has a way out.

Bottle aversion is a learned response. Something made feeding uncomfortable — reflux, a forceful flow, being pushed to finish, a hospital stay — and your baby learned that the bottle means distress. Now the anticipation is doing the work, not the milk.

Here's the part that breaks parents: the dream feeds work. Which makes everyone assume the baby is fine and you're the one doing something wrong.

You're not.

I built Bottle Aversion 101 for exactly this. Thirty minutes, on demand, and it covers what I walk a family through in that first appointment: what bottle aversion actually is, the root causes to rule out first, how it develops, the strategies to try at home, and how to know when you need someone in the room with you.

Feeding your baby shouldn't feel like a daily battle.

Comment BOTTLE and I'll send you the link.

09/07/2026

Starting solids and purees — why you can't skip the steps in front of you.

Another parent watched Jaime's daughter eating and brought purees to dinner the next day. Her own baby was eight months old and not yet drinking from a bottle.

Here's the part that matters. Jaime's daughter got there over many months. She was always taking a bottle — not much, but always — so those muscles were working. Her core was strong. She was showing the signs that said she was ready.

Nobody skipped a step. There was a thought process behind every one.

Readiness for purees isn't only about age. It's sitting with good trunk control, head control, interest in food, and a mouth that's already doing some work. If those aren't there yet, that's information — not failure.

It's a gentle progression. It isn't "my baby will eat tomorrow."

Full episode on Spotify. Link in bio 🎙️

Little Eaters & Talkers — pediatric feeding therapy and speech therapy in Bellaire, serving Houston and virtually nationwide.

09/04/2026

Instead of “YUCK!” 🤢 teach kids to tell you WHY they don’t like a food.

Too crunchy? Too soft? Too sweet? Too wet? 🤔

In feeding therapy, learning to describe food helps kids understand their preferences—and helps us figure out what to try next. 🍓🥦

Try asking: “Tell me about it.” instead of “Do you like it?”

09/03/2026

What does headgear with expansion look like?

The lunchbox comes home full.Same sandwich you packed that morning. Barely touched. And when you ask the teacher, she sa...
09/03/2026

The lunchbox comes home full.

Same sandwich you packed that morning. Barely touched. And when you ask the teacher, she says he didn't seem hungry.

He was hungry.

He just couldn't eat there.

Here's what most of us never picture: a school cafeteria is loud, often over eighty decibels. Forty other lunchboxes opening at once. About ten real minutes to eat once you take out the line. And a child who needs a minute to warm up to a food has no minutes.

So the exact same food that gets eaten at your kitchen table comes home untouched, and it's easy to think something changed with your child.

Nothing changed with your child. The room changed.

This week's episode breaks down:

What school lunch actually asks of your child's nervous system
The "regulation budget" and why school spends it before lunch even starts
Five lunchbox changes you can make before Monday (none of them are "sneak in a vegetable")
The one question to stop asking at pickup, and what to ask instead
How to tell normal back-to-school adjustment from a sign that needs a real evaluation

If that lunchbox still comes home full on Friday, that's the normal part. Not the failure part. The first few weeks of school are the hardest weeks of the year for eating. It gets easier. It just doesn't get easier this week.

New episode out now. Listen on Spotify, link in bio.

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08/28/2026

Lunch packing = a little nutrition lesson in real life 🥪🍓🥒

Yes, you can have the fun snack. 🙌 AND let’s make sure we’re also packing the foods that help you stay full, focused, and energized through the school day.

Our priorities:
🥚 Protein
🥕 Veggies
🍓 Fruit
🍪 + something just for fun

It’s not about making certain foods “good” or “bad.” It’s about teaching kids how to build a lunch that fuels their bodies… while still leaving room for the foods they love.

Because a balanced lunch can include the cookie too. 😉

Orthodontics has changed—and there’s more to consider than just straight teeth. 🦷👃Airway-focused dentists and orthodonti...
08/27/2026

Orthodontics has changed—and there’s more to consider than just straight teeth. 🦷👃

Airway-focused dentists and orthodontists may look at the bigger picture: jaw growth, palate development, nasal breathing, tongue posture, sleep, and how everything is developing together.

It doesn’t mean every child needs an expander or that extractions are always wrong. But if your child has crowding, mouth breathing, a narrow palate, snoring, or concerns about jaw growth, an airway-focused consultation may be worth considering—especially while they’re still growing.

Sometimes a second perspective can give you more options. 🤍

08/26/2026

Russell-Silver syndrome, and why a broad genetic panel can come back normal.

Her genetic test was normal. She still had a syndrome.

Russell-Silver is often an epigenetic condition. The genes themselves are normal — it's the switches sitting on them that are turned off. A standard broad-spectrum genetic panel isn't looking for that. It takes a specific test called a methylation study.

Jaime describes it better than I could: think of it like a light switch. Most of ours are on. Hers are off. And suddenly seven months of low weight, low intake and constant worry made sense.

If you're somewhere in this process and you've been handed a "normal" result that doesn't match the child in front of you — that result may not have been looking for the thing you're looking for.

Ask which test was run. Ask what it does and doesn't cover.

Full episode on Spotify/Youtube. Link in bio 🎙️

Little Eaters & Talkers — pediatric feeding therapy and speech therapy in Bellaire, serving Houston and virtually nationwide.

Your child eats. Your child talks. Almost nobody tells you those are the same skill.They are. The muscles that manage a ...
08/25/2026

Your child eats. Your child talks. Almost nobody tells you those are the same skill.

They are. The muscles that manage a piece of chicken are the same muscles that form words. It even has a name: oral motor skills.

This is why so many kids struggle with both picky eating and unclear speech at the same time, and why the two so often get treated as unrelated problems when they are really one.

A few signs worth noticing in a toddler:

Only eats soft or pureed food well past twelve months. Still drooling noticeably past age two. Hard-to-understand speech showing up alongside feeding trouble.

None of these is a diagnosis on its own. Together, they point to one foundation worth looking at, and supporting the foundation often improves both eating and speech at once.

New blog is live. Link in bio.

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