About Us

Andrea Sheldon (nee Kench) is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD), with over 15 years of dedicated experience in paediatric nutrition. From the very beginning of her career, Andrea has focused exclusively on working with children and their families — and she couldn’t imagine it any other way.

For most of her working career, Andrea held a senior paediatric dietitian position at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, one of Sydney’s largest tertiary children’s hospitals. During this time, Andrea built strong foundations in paediatric nutrition across a range of clinical areas including general medicine, cardiology, gastroenterology and paediatric intensive care. She went on to specialise in Cystic Fibrosis, supporting children born with a chronic disease. While these children predominately required intensive dietietics support for growth, gastrointestinal complications and tube feeding, she would manage all aspects of their nutrition care and would see children born prematurely, or who had coeliac disease, food allergies, disabilities or other conditions that would impact on their ability to grow and thrive. While Andrea loved her time in th hospital setting, she is now excited to bring her experience into private practice, offering specialised care to families living on the Central Coast of NSW through Coastal Kids Nutrition.