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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Dec 27;226(5):607–632. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2021.12.035

TABLE 4.

Nutrition conversation starters

• Tell me about the foods you usually eat.
• Are there foods that you tend to avoid?
• Do you prepare your own food?
• How many times a week do you eat foods that you did not prepare yourself?
• Do you think you eat a healthy diet? Why or why not?
• When asked about GWG, respond with “How do you feel about your food intake?” Strategize about ways to improve nutrition for maternal and fetal health and appropriate GWG.
Food insecurity statements to ask
• Within the past 12 mo, we worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more.
• Within the past 12 mo, the food we bought just did not last and we did not have the money to get more.

GWG, gestational weight gain.