Practical, compassionate support for your child’s tube feeding journey.
From NGT to PEG, we help families navigate tube feeding with confidence and provide safe, structured guidance for blended diets.
Specialist support for tube feeding, blended diets, and tube weaning
Tube feeding can bring many questions — from ensuring your child is meeting their nutritional needs, to managing symptoms, exploring blended diets, or preparing for tube weaning. At Cubs Paediatric Dietetics, we help families navigate tube feeding with clarity, safety, and confidence.
Whether your child is newly tube-fed, has complex medical needs, or you’re considering transitioning toward oral feeding, we’re here with gentle, evidence-based support tailored to your child’s unique situation.
How We Help
Every child’s feeding journey is different. We take the time to understand your child’s medical history, feeding tolerance, nutritional needs, daily routines, and long-term goals so we can offer recommendations that are practical and family-friendly.
Our approach is calm, thorough, and always grounded in the latest paediatric nutrition evidence. We support families through tube feeding management, blended diets, and tube weaning — ensuring every plan is safe, achievable, and aligned with your child’s medical team. We work closely with paediatricians, gastroenterologists, speech pathologists and feeding therapists to ensure your child’s care is cohesive and well coordinated.
Common concerns we can help with include:
Support to help your family navigate the transition from oral to tube feeding with clarity and confidence.
Practical guidance for understanding equipment, routines, and safe day-to-day feeding at home.
Tailored nutrition plans to ensure your child receives complete, balanced nutrition for growth and comfort.
Strategies to ease reflux, constipation, vomiting or discomfort, and identify what may be driving symptoms.
Clear, step-by-step advice for preparing and administering tube feeds safely and hygienically.
Monitoring and adjustments to support healthy growth, prevent deficiencies and protect long-term wellbeing.
Evidence-based help to introduce or optimise a blended diet while maintaining safety, balance and tube compatibility.
A gentle, readiness-led approach to transitioning from tube to oral feeding when appropriate.
What to Expect
1. Initial Consultation
We review feeding tolerance, formula use, growth patterns, medical history, GI symptoms, and your family’s goals.
2. Personalised Plan
You’ll get practical, personalised guidance to help your child thrive.
3. On-going Support
We check in regularly, adjust plans as needed, and make sure feeding remains safe, comfortable, and effective.
Available in-person (Brisbane) or via secure telehealth.
Helpful resources for your child’s tube feeding journey
Explore expert advice, practical strategies, and reassuring insights to help you feel informed and supported as you navigate tube feeding, blended diets, and tube weaning.
You don’t have to navigate tube feeding alone.
Together, we’ll build a plan that feels safe, clear, and achievable.