Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of 1162 ¹ Project Viva participants – overall and by pattern of complementary feeding introduction (latent class).

	(%)
Characteristics	Overall	Class 1 (16%) “Breast Milk and Delayed Sweets and Fruit Juice”	Class 2 (7%) “Picky Eaters”	Class 3 (31%) “Late Flavor Introduction and Delayed Sweets”	Class 4 (45%) “Early Introduction and More Fruit Juice”
Child sex
Male	50.5	49.4	53.9	51.5	49.7
Female	49.5	50.6	46.2	48.5	50.3
Mother college graduate
No	26.6	9.6	24.4	27.9	31.6
Yes	73.5	90.5	75.6	72.1	68.5
Household income at enrollment
≤$70,000	32.4	20.1	35.2	28.2	39.0
>$70,000	67.7	79.9	64.8	71.9	61.0
Child race/ethnicity
White	70.7	83.2	69.2	70.8	66.7
Non-white	29.4	16.9	30.8	29.2	33.3
Infant feeding at 6 m
Formula only/weaned by 6 m	47.9	31.2	47.2	53.9	49.4
Partially/fully breastfed at 6 m	52.1	68.8	52.8	46.2	50.6
Mother pre-pregnancy BMI
Underweight/normal weight	64.8	70.2	71.8	62.7	63.3
Overweight	22.3	21.9	15.4	24.9	21.7
Obese	13.0	7.9	12.8	12.4	15.0
Mother AHEI score in pregnancy
Quartile 1	23.0	17.0	20.0	21.5	26.5
Quartile 2	24.7	24.3	28.0	22.6	25.7
Quartile 3	26.2	26.0	25.3	28.4	25.0
Quartile 4	26.1	32.8	26.7	27.5	22.8

¹ Some of the 1162 participants were missing data on one or more of the variables included here.