![]() Has your baby refused to take solids before 6 months of age (c) Taking only small quantities at each fedĭo you feel you have ever had any difficulty feeding your baby? Please indicate if your baby had any of the following feeding behaviours and when they occurred: Is the baby fed ‘on demand’, i.e., whenever he/she is hungry? (d) Taking only small quantities at each fedĭo you feel your baby is difficult to feed? Please indicate if your baby has had the following feeding behaviours: The factors to be explored include maternal anxiety and depressive symptoms, parity, feeding behaviours during infancy and complementary feeding practices. The aim of this study is to investigate factors associated with maternal worry about her child’s choosiness at 15 months of age. It is important to understand how the parent-child relationship around feeding develops during the early years because this is likely to determine whether the child eats a balanced diet during childhood and beyond. In other studies, parental worry has been investigated only in relation to the perception that the child is under-eating or underweight, not in relation to child choosiness or picky eating. The parent being worried by their child being choosy with regard to foods in toddlerhood has been shown to be highly associated with the child being perceived as a picky eater at age 3 years and this has been associated with a diet low in dietary fibre, fruit, vegetables and meat. However, parents do not always find this an easy process and by the age of 3 years many children are perceived as ‘picky eaters’ by their parents. Parents play a crucial role in providing a supportive environment during this phase of a child’s life. Parents should be reassured that choosiness is a normal part of child development.ĭuring the introduction of complementary foods infants learn to consume new tastes and textures and some children find this more difficult than others. Support and advice to parents at the start of complementary feeding could help to alleviate worry. Feeding vegetables regularly by 6 months was associated with lower odds of worry at 15 months. Worried mothers had shown greater odds of introducing lumpy foods late (after 9 months). ![]() Mothers showed greater odds of being worried if the child was first born, difficult to feed or refused solids by 6 months of age. Half of the children (56%) were described as choosy at 15 months of these 27% had mothers who were a bit worried and 5% greatly worried. Multinomial logistic regression models with three levels of worry ( not at all, a bit and greatly) as the dependent variables tested associations with variables from pregnancy and infancy. Feeding behaviours and practices throughout the first 15 months were captured. Parents of singleton children from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children ( n = 5710) completed a questionnaire assessing perception of their child’s choosy feeding behaviour at 15 months of age and whether this choosiness worried them. The study aimed to investigate factors that are associated with a mother being worried about her child’s choosy feeding behaviour. Choosiness in young children is a normal behaviour that sometimes worries parents. ![]()
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