An educational session by PregaTips & Navbharat Times in collaboration with Riddhi Verma to help parents understand toddler nutrition, picky eating, and healthy feeding habits for children aged 1–3 years.
Why Toddlers Become Picky Eaters: Understand basic behavioural changes that occur in this age group, and habits that aggravate picky eating.
Building a Balanced Toddler Diet: Tips, recipes, and more, for proper nutritional intake. Learn how to keep variety alive, and correct portion sizes.
What is normal during food refusals: Understand some common toddler habits, how to handle food refusals and when to be concerned.
Child Nutritionist & Behaviour Coach | Founder, Baby-Led Weaning India
Riddhi Verma Ayyagari is a Child Nutritionist and Behaviour Coach with expertise in baby & toddler nutrition, Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) feeding approach, responsive feeding, and picky eating. She is the Founder of Baby-Led Weaning India, where she has supported 15,000+ families across 40 countries. She holds a Diploma in Child Nutrition and a Stanford certification in Child Development and Behaviour, and has built a community of 100K+ followers, helping parents navigate common feeding concerns including starting solids, mealtime tantrums, picky eating, force feeding, sensory aversions, and screen feeding.
For parents of 1–3-year-olds who eat only a few foods, reject new foods or suddenly refuse foods they once enjoyed.
For those dealing with food refusal, tantrums, constant negotiation, short meals or the daily stress of “What will my child eat today?”
For parents who want to understand their toddler’s nutritional needs, build balanced meals and know when picky eating may need professional attention.
This session is designed to help you better understand nutritional needs of your child, and how to handle mealtimes better. As an expert-led session, it will explore:
This session is for educational and awareness purposes only and is not a substitute for personalised consultation, diagnosis, or treatment. Participants are encouraged to consult qualified healthcare professionals or an expert for any medical concerns or serious issues.
Keep a notebook and pen handy to note down anything you feel is essential. But, most importantly, please attend the session with a relaxed, free mind, without any distractions, for 90 minutes.
If you have any questions in your mind that an expert can clarify, keeping them noted down for the AMA session may help.
This session will be conducted live in Hinglish. We will take user questions during the live session.
No. This is a live session, and we will not provide a recording. All attendees are encouraged to take notes and actively participate in the session, including asking any questions.
You can ask your questions to our expert, who will help you make better choices that will support you on your parenting journey. However, this session cannot be considered a medical counselling session, consultation or be treated as a replacement for personalised diet plans for any child or for children with special needs.
You will get a reminder along with a link to an external platform to join the session. This will be shared with you on the day of the session. Please join from your laptop for a better experience.