Table 3.

Themes and sub-themes from the data analysis

Main themes	1) Identification of infant overweight and future risk	2) Consequences of infant overweight status	3) Parental attributions of causality, responsibility and control
Sub-themes	1a) Overweight as a concept that can be applied to infants	2a) The relative impact of overweight versus underweight	3a) High parental responsibility for overfeeding
	1b) Trust and mistrust of professional growth assessment	2b) The progressive nature of consequences associated with overweight	3b) Low parental self-efficacy for modifying infant feeding
	1c) Receptiveness to risk communication and modification of lifestyle behaviours	2c) The importance of infant contentment
	1d) Perceived benefits and harms of risk communication	2d) Good parenting and the fear of negative judgement