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About Me

I’m Irina Kremsner, a weaning coach based in Austria.

In January 2024, I gave birth to my daughter, Freya, and when it came to introducing solids, I was faced with a huge amount of new information:

  • What is forbidden to eat?
  • Which products are good for my child?
  • How often should I feed her?
  • How can I instill good eating habits and avoid pickiness?

So I began researching this topic thoroughly and applying the information I’d learned. My background as a chemist (PhD) helped me find and process information, as well as understand processes from a scientific perspective. My daughter began eating well, and mealtimes together have become one of our favorite times of the day. We truly enjoy eating together! I realised I wanted other mothers to experience this pleasure, rather than the stress and anxiety that often accompany it:

  • “He doesn’t eat anything!”
  • “He’s going to be hungry again soon, and I don’t know what to cook!”
  • “How can I give him the age-appropriate 100/150/… grams of food if he’s throwing everything around?”

(Spoiler: no need to keep track of grams). I then trained as a specialist in complementary feeding, nutrition, and eating behaviour for young children, and now I enjoy helping families.

You can read reviews of my work here.

My certificates can be found in the relevant section.

Problems

If you, like me, love drinking your coffee hot, but because of the baby’s solids, you’ve started drinking it cold and on the go, then you’ve come to the right place. But seriously:

What nutritional issues do I work on:
  • Preparing for solids: what to buy, when to start, what foods to introduce, including introducing allergens
  • Conventional solids and BLW
  • The child doesn’t want to sit in a high chair and/or throws food
  • Daily routine
  • Eating behavior
  • The child is a picky eater
  • Choosing a balanced diet
  • Picky eating, neophobia (fear of trying new things)
  • Gag reflex
  • Eating while watching cartoons, while distracted

It’s important to note that since I’m not a doctor, in some situations I may recommend you visit the appropriate specialist (pediatrician, allergist, sensory development specialist, speech therapist, breastfeeding specialist).

Certificates
Bushueva Complementary Feeding Up to One Year Bushueva Complementary Feeding Up to One Year Bushueva Nutrition and Feeding Behavior After One Year Bushueva Nutrition and Feeding Behavior After One Year Diploma Diploma

Field of My Work

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The Services I Offer

If you’re about to introduce solid foods but are unsure about the information, or if you feel it’s time to change something about your baby’s diet, I’m happy to help! Depending on your situation and preferences, I can offer you convenient options for our interaction:

One-time online consultation

Suitable for mothers of very young children who are just starting to introduce complementary foods, but there is so much conflicting information.

  • The child isn’t sitting up on their own yet, how long should I wait?
  • How do I combine breastfeeding/IV feeding and complementary feeding?
  • The pediatrician recommends introducing complementary foods with cereals from 4 months onwards due to low weight. What should I do? (Answer: We introduce complementary foods when the child is ready, not because of low weight.)
  • Should we start with zucchini?
  • Should I feed it myself or puree it?
  • How much should I give? How often?
  • How long does it take to introduce a product?
  • What about allergens?
  • Can I add some sugar/syrup to the puree? What about salting the soup?
  • What kind of stool should I choose? Which dishes?

And we will have time to discuss many, many other possible problems.

Who else would benefit from a one-time online consultation? Those who don’t understand the problem. Essentially, it’s about diagnosing your situation with introducing solids and discussing a plan for further action (if needed).

The cost for an online consultation is 1600 Euro for 30 minutes or Euro rubles for one hour.

Supervision

If you choose this communication format, we will stay in touch for one week for children under one year old, and for two weeks for children over one year old, via Telegram or WhatsApp Messenger. I will analyze your situation (for this, I ask you to fill out a form and send me a video of your baby’s meal) and together we will analyze it and take targeted measures.

I will give you tasks and recommendations, and you will report on their implementation to me, including video reports. With your full commitment, respectable results will soon follow!

I will be available for you 5 days a week, at least 3 times a day. At the end of our collaboration, I will prepare a detailed report for you that analyzes your case, the work performed, and the results achieved, and provides recommendations for next steps.

The cost for one week of support is 4,000 Euro. The cost for two weeks of support is 7,500 Euro. Upon request, support can be extended indefinitely at a 10% discount (in multiples of one week).

If you live in Vienna or the surrounding area, I invite you to participate in my seminars “Preparation for complementary feeding” and “Development of healthy eating habits”. You can find the schedule here.

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