Weaning attitudes and practices in Baghdad community

This study was conducted on 150 infants in Al-Mansoor Children's Teaching Hospital, Medical City from Jan. - April 1992. The infants ages were 6-12 months. 62.6% were males; 75% were urban areas. Fifty six infants [37%] were breast fed. 60.7% of mothers gave weaning food to support breast milk. The mother's age had no significant effect on the time of weaning, mothers with secondary and high education prefer weaning at early age [3 months]. Weaning started at 4-6 months by 66% of mothers. Biscuits, soups, cereals, eggs, fruit juices and rice water were foods first introduced. The source of advice to 88 mothers [59%] about weaning was from the grandmother

Agnathia of maxilla and zygoma with a comment on first arch syndrome

A case of an infant with severe oro-facial anomalies is presented. The presence of a normal mandible and the left total absence of the maxillary and zygomatic bones on the left side in the present case, support the hypotheses presented by various other workers that the maxillary process doses not arise as a dorsal prolongation from the first mandibular arch but from the mesenchyme of the neural crest in the head region which give rise to the mid-face structures