Paediatrics
Birth to 18 years old
“Gain confidence, reassurance and joy in feeding your infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents”
Dr Bujtor is passionate about the importance and impact of nutrition in the developmental years.
As parents, caregivers, and healthcare professionals, it is important we understand the vital role that adequate and appropriate nutrition plays in the growth, development, and overall well-being of individuals from early childhood (birth to age 5), through middle childhood (ages 6 to 10), and adolescence (ages 11 to 18), collectively known as the "developmental years".
Nutrition is crucial in the developmental years. These years present an incredible opportunity to establish lifelong healthful dietary and lifestyle habits
Research has also shown us that behaviours and habits established in childhood and adolescence, including dietary intake habits, often continue to track into later life and commonly recur across the lifespan. Positive and negative experiences during the developmental years can have a cascading effect on all areas of development.
Feeding children during their developmental years can be challenging for parents and caregivers. With an abundance of often conflicting information available, many families are left feeling unsure about the right approach and lacking confidence in their decisions.
Dr Bujtor can help...
Dr Bujtor provides evidence-based guidance and support to parents and caregivers across a wide range of paediatric nutrition concerns, helping families feel confident that their child's nutritional needs are being met throughout key developmental stages.
As a parent herself, she understands the practical and emotional challenges that can arise around feeding, and works collaboratively with families to develop approaches that are realistic, supportive, and sustainable over time.
Dr Bujtor is also a paediatric feeding specialist, with expertise in paediatric feeding and eating disorders. She is trained in a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches, including the Sequential-Oral-Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding, and has extensive experience working with children and adolescents who experience difficulties with eating, feeding, or growth.
With postgraduate training in psychology, Dr Bujtor understands feeding not only as a nutritional task, but as a developmental process shaped by learning, behaviour, sensory experience, and emotional context. She has extensive experience supporting neurodivergent children and young people, and takes a neuroaffirming, individualised approach that recognises differences in sensory processing, communication, and regulation.
Support may include concerns around picky or restrictive eating, introducing solid foods, ensuring adequate nutritional intake for growth and development, and managing nutrition in the context of health conditions such as food allergies or adolescent PCOS.
Her science-led, educational approach supports parents and caregivers to better understand what is influencing their child's eating, and to navigate feeding challenges with greater clarity and confidence.
Nutrition During Childhood (Birth to 11 years)
The foundations of healthy eating are established in the first decade of life. Dr Bujtor can support families with:
- Managing reflux
- The transition to solid food
- Adequate and appropriate dietary intake at each stage of the lifespan
- Growth and development concerns
- Managing a food allergy diagnosis
- ADHD dietary management
- Assisting neurodiverse individuals with dietary management
- Digestive issues (colic, constipation, diarrhoea, IBS)
- Key nutrient deficiencies: Iron, vitamin D, calcium, fibre, folate, magnesium, potassium, vitamin E
- Vegetarian or vegan diets for children
- How to navigate food refusal, picky eating, problem feeding, and disordered eating
Nutrition During Adolescence (11 to 18 years)
The teenage years bring unique nutritional challenges as bodies grow rapidly and young people begin to make independent food choices. Dr Bujtor provides support for:
- Adequate and appropriate dietary intake for this stage of the lifespan
- Overweight / underweight
- Acne
- Irregular periods
- Addressing dieting concerns, and disordered eating
- ADHD dietary management
- Assisting neurodiverse individuals with dietary management
- Digestive issues (constipation, diarrhoea, IBS)
- Iron deficiency, Anemia
- PCOS and endometriosis
- Key nutrient deficiencies: Vitamin D, calcium, fibre, folate, magnesium, potassium, vitamin E, zinc
- Vegetarian or vegan diets for adolescents
A more in-depth insight
Learn more about these topics from Dr Bujtor’s perspective and how she can help you
"Every child deserves the opportunity to develop a healthy, joyful relationship with food."
