Table 4 Factors associated with the consumption of non-recommended foods

 Maternal age at child birth (years)

0.93(0.91,0.96)^***

0.96(0.94,0.99)^*

 Low vs high

2.90(2.15,3.92)^***

2.02(1.42,2.86)^***

 Middle vs high

1.73(1.40,2.15)^*

1.36(1.07,1.73)^*

Maternal ethnic background, non-native vs native

1.28(0.94,1.75)

Maternal employment status, unemployed vs employed

1.23(0.95,1.60)

Family structure, single parent vs two parents

1.36(0.67,2.76)

Infant gender, girl vs boy

0.79(0.65,0.97)^*

0.86(0.70,1.06)

Parity, multipara vs primipara

0.77(0.63,0.93)^**

0.85(0.68,1.08)

 Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI

1.01(0.99,1.03)

 Infant gestational age (weeks)

0.90(0.82,1.00)^*

0.94(0.84,1.04)

 Infant weight at birth, Z-score

0.94(0.84,1.04)

 Infant postnatal weight gain, Z-score^a

0.92(0.80,1.06)

  No breastfeeding

2.37(1.85,3.03)^***

1.91(1.44,2.52)^***

  Breastfeeding for 0.5–4 months

1.51(1.19,1.91)^*

1.35(1.04,1.74)^*

  Breastfeeding for 4 months or longer

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 Maternal depressive symptoms, yes vs no^b

1.14(0.83,1.55)

 “My child drinks greedily”

0.81(0.65,1.01)

 “My child always wants to eat when he/she sees someone eating”

1.59(1.30,1.94)^***

1.44(1.16,1.79)^***

 “My child does not like plain water”

1.31(1.03,1.67)^*

1.08(0.83,1.41)

 “My child cried a lot in the first 3 months”

0.93(0.72,1.20)

 “Fruit and vegetables can be given to the baby freely earlier than 4 months”

2.36(1.58,3.52)^*

1.66(1.07,2.56)^*

 “I don’t like my child to be fat”

0.78(0.63,0.96)^*

0.80(0.64,1.01)

 “I don’t like my child to be thin”

0.96(0.79,1.17)

 Soothability

1.12(1.04,1.22)^***

1.15(1.06,1.26)^**

 Distress to limitations

1.00(0.90,1.12)

 Distress to novel food

0.91(0.85,0.98)^*

0.92(0.85,0.99)^*

 Day-care attendance, yes vs no

0.63(0.51,0.78)^***

0.76(0.60,0.96)^*

 “BBOFT+” intervention vs no intervention

0.91(0.73,1.13)