Objective: To determine the frequency of various common types of concerns of primigravida mothers regarding their infant visiting pediatric OPD. Setting and design: This cross sectional study was conducted at pediatric OPD, Isra University Hospital Hyderabad. Methods and material: 379 primigravida mothers having baby <2 months of age consented to participate in the study. Infants having problem for which hospital admission was indicated were excluded. Mothers were asked and data was collected

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... r their common concerns of infants i.e. crying, feeding, sleeping, constipation, diarrhea, vomiting and appearance of baby. Results: Mean age + SD of the infants were 25.42 + 18.18 days with a minimum age of 3 days and maximum 60 days. 54% (n=204) infants were male and 64% (n=174) were female. 19.3% (n=73) were up to one week of age, 44.1% (n=167) infants were between the age of 1week to 1 month and 36.7% (n=139) were between 1month to 2months. The most common concern with which primigravida mothers presented was feeding concerns (65.2%), followed by appearance of infant (54.9%) and sleeping concerns (52.2%), vomiting, (48.3%) and crying (42.2%). Concerns regarding constipation and diarrhea were least common i.e. (23% & 19.8% respectively). Maximum numbers of concerns (i.e. 5) were shown by 21 (5.5%) mothers. Conclusions: Long spells of Crying, feeding, sleep, appearance and vomiting were common concerns. Key words: Infants, primigravida mothers, concerns, crying, vomiting, diarrhea