Feeding Practices and Weaning Patterns of Lebanese Infants

abrupt weaning Age of onset arak Armenians and Maronites bottle-feeding breast breast-milk broiled burghul cereals and pulses chick peas chicken child health workers complete breast-feeding completely weaned consumed by infants cooked Diarrhea different age periods early weaning eggs eighteen months family diet Fasoulia fava beans feeding practices feeding-bottle female infants Female Male Female fruit juices given haricot beans highest frequency incidence of boiling incidence of complete infant feeding kibbeh lactation leban Lebanese lentils loquat low-income group Ma'amoul Male Female Male malnutrition Maronite and Sunni Maternal factors meat months of age nine months nipple number of feeds nurse observed infants olive oil partial breast-feeding partial weaning partially breast-fed pilav schedule semi-solid sesame oil seven and nine six months soft drinks soup special baby cereals stewed stuffed suckling Sunni and Maronites Sunni females Sunni infants Sunni males Sunni mothers Table three groups three months twelve months unboiled weaning patterns