Acceptance of children’s excess weight
CHC-nurses conceived that the views held by Swedish
society and health care professionals, related to the healthy weight of pre-school children, have changed in
recent years. According to the participant CHC-nurses,
the increased proportion of overweight children means
that these children no longer stand out. Their conception
was that those children who were earlier regarded
as having a healthy weight were now regarded as being
thin. The Swedish population has become heavier in
general and this is something that the CHC-nurses
regarded as being due to the fact that the Swedish society
has accepted the situation and adapted to it. Moreover,
the participants considered that CHC-nurses had
become blind to this fact and were no longer able to discern
which of the children they meet should be considered
overweight.