We spoke to members of the Nepalese community living in Australia about their experiences relating to feeding young children. These pages share their views, challenges and suggestions.

Our aim always is to help make feeding joyful – for us this means that children eat well, enjoy mealtimes, and that parents feel confident and comfortable with their child’s nutrition and with what happens at mealtimes.

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Different Cultural Expectations between Nepal and Australia

• Difficult Mealtimes
• Nut Allergies
• Feeding After Vomiting
• Australian Feeding Guidelines and Nepalese Culture

Ways of feeding your child as part of the Nepalese community in Australia

• The role of grandparents and in-laws
• Managing feeding when parents have shift work jobs
• Blending food
• Paasni
• Self-feeding or spoon-feeding?
• Maintaining Nepalese culture through food

Challenges we share with families from all cultures

• Transition to solids
• Routines
• Are we doing something wrong?

For families with feeding difficulties and tube-feeding

• Feeling judged by other parents
• Finding it difficult to get outside and socialise
• Tube-feeding

Real stories from Nepalese families living in Australia

• Story 1
• Story 2

Videos and resources

All our videos and resources in one place