Table1: Interview guide at 6, 9 and 12 months
How did you interact with your baby during the main meal (lunch), yesterday?
Probing questions
  1. Yesterday, during the meal time, did you do anything to encourage (child’s name) to eat? If yes, what did you do? If no, ask for reasons? Is it always like that or there are situations you do it differently, if yes when and what do you do different and why?
  2. Yesterday, during the meal time, while feeding (child’s name) did you talk to him/ her? What did you say? Is it always like that or there are situations you do it differently, if yes when and what do you do different and why?
  3. Yesterday, during the meal time, did (child’s name) self-feed (eat by him/herself, using hands or utensil) at any moment during the meal? If yes, did the child (name) self-feed the whole time, half of the time or a little time? Is it always like that or there are situations you do it differently. What difficulties would you have in doing this?
  4. Yesterday, during the meal time, did (child’s name) stop eating, and you think he/she did not eat enough, what did you do? Is it always like that or there are situations you do it differently, if yes when and what do you do different and why? If the mother answers: “I motivated her/him to eat”: How did you motivate her/him to eat? Is it always like that or there are situations you do it differently, and why?
  5. What difficulties would you have in motivating the child to eat when you think he /she did not eat enough?
  6. If the mother doesn’t say she would motivate: Why wouldn’t you motivate?
  7. What factors do you think make it difficult for you to interact with your child during feeding? How do they make it difficult your interactions?