Participants and their parents will participate in a 3 session intervention targeting healthy introduction of complementary foods. Intervention sessions will occur when the infant is 4, 6, and 9 months of age.

Participants and their parents will complete pre- and post-treatment period study visits to assess study outcomes. They will receive no intervention.

The intervention provides parent education and skills training on a responsive feeding approach to introduction of healthy foods in infancy. Session content is manualized and administered by interventionists with expertise in child development and behavioral strategies for managing child eating behaviors under the supervision of a licensed clinical child psychologist and pediatric occupational therapist. Sessions are conducted individually with participants and primary caregivers and include educational content, handouts and instructions, modeling of skills by the interventionist, caregiver practicing of skills in session, establishment of behavioral goals, and problem solving barriers to implementation of treatment content. Content will include topics such as allowing infants' own hunger and satiety cues to guide the feeding experience, introducing healthy foods, parental attunement to infant satiety cues, and promoting infants' own self-feeding.

Infant anthropometrics of weight and length were measured and used to calculate weight-for-length percentile standardized for age and gender.

Infant satiety and food responsiveness was measured using the parent-report Baby Eating Behavior Questionnaire (BEBQ). The BEBQ provides subscale scores for "Food Responsiveness", "Enjoyment of Food", "Satiety Responsiveness", and "Slowness in Eating" with each subscale score ranging from 1 to 5, with 5 representing higher values on that construct. Each subscale score is computed as the average of all individual items on that subscales.

Fruit and vegetable variety was assessed using the parent-report Block Food Frequency Questionnaire. Scores were calculated for servings of vegetables per day and servings of fruits per day. The minimum value is 0. There is no upper-bound for the maximum value, as this is dependent on the individual participant's food consumption. Higher numbers indicate greater consumption. Only post-treatment results are presented since infants had not been introduced to solid foods at the time of baseline.

Caregivers in the treatment condition completed a survey measuring whether parents found the intervention appropriate for their infant, whether sessions occurred at the right time, whether information was presented clearly, whether they knew how to implement the recommendations, whether the intervention was helpful, whether they were satisfied with the intervention, and whether they would recommend the intervention to a friend/family member/coworker. Each satisfaction attribute will be assessed on a 1-5 Likert scale with higher scores indicating higher agreement. Information from each individual item will be used, and no total or subscale scores will be computed. Parents also provided qualitative information on what additional information should be included in the intervention, what information was not helpful, what should be changed about the intervention, and what should stay the same about the intervention.

Participants and their parents participated in a 3-session intervention targeting healthy introduction of complementary foods. Intervention sessions occurred when the infant was 4, 6, and 9 months of age.

Healthy Start to Feeding: The intervention provided parent education and skills training on a responsive feeding approach to introduction of healthy foods in infancy. Session content was manualized and administered by interventionists with expertise in child development and behavioral strategies for managing child eating behaviors under the supervision of a licensed clinical child psychologist and pediatric occupational therapist. Sessions were conducted individually with participants and primary caregivers and included educational content, handouts and instructions, modeling of skills by the interventionist, caregiver practicing of skills in session, establishment of behavioral goals, and problem solving barriers to implementation of treatment content. Content included topics such as allowing infants' own hunger and satiety cues to guide the feeding experience, introducing healthy foods, parental attunement to infant satiety cues, and promoting infants' own self-feeding.

Infant anthropometrics of weight and length were measured and used to calculate weight-for-length percentile standardized for age and gender.

Participants and their parents will participate in a 3 session intervention targeting healthy introduction of complementary foods. Intervention sessions will occur when the infant is 4, 6, and 9 months of age.

Healthy Start to Feeding: The intervention provides parent education and skills training on a responsive feeding approach to introduction of healthy foods in infancy. Session content is manualized and administered by interventionists with expertise in child development and behavioral strategies for managing child eating behaviors under the supervision of a licensed clinical child psychologist and pediatric occupational therapist. Sessions are conducted individually with participants and primary caregivers and include educational content, handouts and instructions, modeling of skills by the interventionist, caregiver practicing of skills in session, establishment of behavioral goals, and problem solving barriers to implementation of treatment content. Content will include topics such as allowing infants' own hunger and satiety cues to guide the feeding experience, introducing healthy foods, parental attunement to infant satiety cues, and promoting infants' own self-feeding.