Growth & nutrition

Children deserve a good start. Food choices and diet composition during childhood can influence not only their growth but their future health and relationship with food later in life. In addition, tastes and eating habits formed now will form the foundation for your child's diet and tastes in the future.

In the first five years, children's growth goes beyond height and weight. Different organs develop at different paces, bones grow in length, density and number, muscles develop, and the glands begin to secrete essential hormones from childhood through adolescence.

As your paediatrician, Dr Böcking can evaluate whether your child's growth and development are on track, detect any issues and assist babies, toddlers and young children in proper nutrition that not only supports a healthy foundation but fuels the rapid growth that children are known to go through.

Dr Böcking can assist parents in adopting a healthy diet, ensuring the right amount of macro and micronutrients are included in your little one's diet as well as assist in adopting healthy relationships with food to enhance your child's development, growth and overall well-being.