Nourish and Grow Nutrition is owned and operated by Katie Steuerwald.
Katie is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian. She has been a dietitian for more than 20 years. She has been working with children and their families for 20 years.
Katie has worked at large Children’s hospitals both in Australia and in the UK. Katie has many years of experience working with babies and young children. In the last few years, Katie has been working more with pregnant women, particularly in the area of Gestational Diabetes.
Areas of Expertise include babies and young children with poor growth and fussy eating. Other areas of experience include surgical and medical patients, PICU and NICU, neurology, orthopaedic and surgical patients and children with disabilities.
Katie also has experience presenting education sessions to families, medical nursing and allied health teams. She has been involved in student education both presenting lectures and providing 1: 1 supervision.
Katie’s favourite part of dietetics is working with families. Supporting and empowering parents on all parts of their journey.Whether that is optimising the chance of getting pregnant and improving the baby’s health from preconception. Minimising the risk or managing pregnancy complications or helping children to reach their growth potential.
Optimising and improving relationships with food and eating is so important. Katie loves to work with families to help everyone enjoy mealtimes and not dread them.
Katie is a mum to two young children and understands the difficulties that can exist when trying to make changes and run a busy household. When she is not working Katie enjoys travelling, Lego and trying to learn Japanese.