Infant feeding practices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Infant-feeding patterns were studied in 6, 653 randomly selected Saudi families living in Riyadh. The 4, 796 infants studied were under 1 year of age and were fed with breast milk plus bottle complements. Bottle-feeding was started in 27.3% of infants during the first months after birth. The mean age at which solid food was introduced was 3.45 months. The overall results suggest a decreasing incidence of breast-feeding along with diminishing length of nursing period

Menarcheal age, marriage, and reproduction among Saudi women

Analysis of data gathered from 2899 Saudi women between the age of 14 and 59 years showed a decline in the age at menarche. The mean age at menarche was 13.24 years, but women born in the past 20 years matured more than half a year earlier than their mothers' generation. The average number of pregnancies among the sampled women was 4.48. Women with older age at menarche had s slightly higher number of pregnancies, and there was a positive correlation between older age at menarche and reported live births. The proportion of women reporting one or more miscarriages was not associated with age at menarche