

Please don’t imagine I am some put-upon housekeeper for complacent man-babies who expected to be fed at every meal. I have been feeding others as well as myself daily for over 25 years, from spat-out baby puree right up to last night’s burritos. It’s cooking and the subsidiary, possibly worse, chore of deciding what to cook that I’m sick of. Not that food – that most reliable of pleasures – is the problem.

I used to be appalled at what my father would offer on my impromptu visits: three wizened apples, a thimble of sunflower seeds and a two-pack of shortbread fingers from Great Western Railway, the latter presented proudly as a decadent indulgence. No, you can’t have broccoli, this gluten-free muesli bought by accident in 2017 is sufficiently nutritious, and no, the black specks aren’t weevils. Well before my sons left, I ran down our overstocked cupboards, treating food requests with miserly suspicion. “Then we stock up on beans and baking potatoes.” This is no empty promise: I’ve been preparing and anticipating for months. “I’ll make your birthday dinner,” I told my husband, grudgingly. So it’s just the two of us and that means one thing. After some last-minute flapping (how many succulents can you squeeze into a wheelie case, don’t pack a pestle and mortar heavier than a neutron star, that kind of thing), the last fledgling left. All rights reserved.M y nest is officially empty. These behaviors may be modifiable targets for low health literacy-focused interventions to help reduce childhood obesity.Ĭopyright © 2014 Mosby, Inc. Low parent health literacy is associated with certain obesogenic infant care behaviors.
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Low health literacy significantly increased the odds of a parent reporting that they feed more formula than breast milk, (aOR = 2.0 ), immediately feed when their child cries (aOR = 1.8 ), bottle prop (aOR = 1.8 ), any infant TV watching (aOR = 1.8 ), and inadequate tummy time (<30 min/d), (aOR = 3.0 ). Multivariate logistic regression analyses (binary, proportional odds models) performed adjusting for child sex, out-of-home care, Women, Infants, and Children program status, parent age, race/ethnicity, language, number of adults/children in home, income, and site.Įleven percent of parents were categorized as having low health literacy. Primary outcome variables involving self-reported obesogenic behaviors were: (1) feeding content (more formula than breast milk, sweet drinks, early solid food introduction), and feeding style-related behaviors (pressuring to finish, laissez-faire bottle propping/television watching while feeding, nonresponsiveness in letting child decide amount to eat) and (2) physical activity (tummy time, TV).

The primary predictor variable was parent health literacy (Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults adequate ≥ 23 low <23). English- and Spanish-speaking parents of 2-month-old children were enrolled (n = 844).

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To examine the relationship between parent health literacy and "obesogenic" infant care behaviors.Ĭross-sectional analysis of baseline data from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a primary care-based early childhood obesity prevention program (Greenlight).
