Learning to overeat in infancy: Concurrent and prospective relationships between maternal BMI, feeding practices and child eating response among Hispanic mothers and children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents play a key role in shaping children's eating behaviours and self-regulation. There is limited data on how maternal weight influences feeding practices in the first year of life.

Objective

To examine the relationships between maternal BMI, feeding practices and infant eating behaviours related to self-regulation.

Methods

Participants were 160 mother-infant dyads. A longitudinal design was used to examine concurrent and prospective associations between maternal 6-month postpartum BMI, mothers' feeding practices at 6 months (Infant Feeding Practices Questionnaire) and children's eating behaviours at 6 months (Baby Eating Behaviour Questionnaire) and 12 months (Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire).

Results

Higher maternal BMI was associated posi

SUBMITTER: Schneider-Worthington CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8105266 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature