Exploring Infant Feeding Pratices In Food Insecure Households: What Is The Real Issue?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article presents results from a sociological exploratory case study on the relationship between infant feeding practice and household food insecurity in Canada. Drawing on interviews with 20 mothers living in low-income circumstances in Nova Scotia, this article discusses how the particular foodways of the mother-infant dyad—those that relate to food production through lactation, feeding method, food acquisition, and food consumption—are shaped by the social condition of household food insecurity. The findings demonstrate that household food insecurity led mothers to initiate breastfeeding, however severe levels of household food insecurity also compromised maternal food consumption and breastfeeding success. The findings also detail how infant food insecurity resulted from non-affordability and inaccessibility of formula. For infant food security to occur, mothers must be supported to be producers of food and supported in accessing reliable, safe, affordable, personally acceptable alternatives through socially just means when breastfeeding is not possible. Doing so will require adopting a mother-centered harm reduction approach to infant feeding support, along with broader policy considerations aimed at improving economic and social welfare.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".