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Kathy O'Bryan

Pediatric registered dietitian (MS, RD, LD) known as "The Mini Me Dietitian"; host of Food for Tot podcast and creator of The Mini Me Method for infant and toddler feeding

Aug 12, 2026

4:27
So just what are the kind of the most common issues that you see and you're addressing with those families?
4:33
Absolutely.
4:34
I'm happy to share what those are.
4:36
I also just want to say that as a first-time mom myself, um, feeding rocked my world.
4:44
Nothing about my feeding journey with my own child went the way that I thought it was going to.
4:49
And so on a personal note, I can 100% relate to a lot of the struggles that parents and my clients face.
4:58
And that's a huge part of why I even built my business or started my coaching program, is because I've been a dietitian for 10 years.

20 MINS LATER

25:27
Yes.
7:24
And then what is kind of not normal is in the development and starts to fall into the, this is a picky eater, this child's going to need some extra support.
7:35
Totally.
7:36
So I think it's really important to give credit to how long it takes to actually learn food, especially with the population that I work with of babies and toddlers.
7:49
I see a lot of parents kind of assuming that because their little one is no longer a baby, that they're past the part of like learning food or they should just have it figured out in toddlerhood.
8:03
And that's truly not the case.
8:04
They are still learning so much.
8:07
And so especially in those first two years of life, we are really working on establishing their preferences, not trying to figure them out.

39 MINS LATER

47:41
What is kind of a step that they can take?
NinoHOST
12:54
Um, how long did it take you to recover from such trauma? Like, is it still an ongoing process?
13:00
Well, healing is a process.
13:03
It's not an event, and it, and it takes some time.
13:06
By the time I began speaking out in 1990...
13:09
I've been speaking out for over 35 years, um, on mind control and healing from it.
13:14
When I first began speaking out, it was out of concern for my daughter who was caught up in the so-called Child Protective Services and, and it's just a absolutely horrific situation.
13:26
So, it was love for my daughter that compelled me to speak out.
NinoHOST
15:51
Does it hit you, like when you see their face, like a flashback and you remember everything at that moment? Or is it just kinda like, oh, that person looks familiar, maybe, maybe? Or is it something that's just like boom?

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