Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

Association Between Maternal Nutritional Status And Neonatal Birth Weight

Dr. Swati Dahake, Late Dr. Ratnendra Shinde

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Background: Globally more than 15.5% of all births are low birth weight and 95.6% them being in developing countries Aim and objectives: To assess the maternal nutritional status in terms of pregnancy body mass index. To assess neonatal birth weight after delivery and to find association between maternal pregnancy body mass index and neonatal birth weight. Methodology: observational study conducted among 97 pregnant women in urban area. Result: study findings indicates that 49.48% were in less than 18.5 early pregnancy body mass index and 50.52% were having early pregnancy body mass index more than or equal to18.5. 41.24% pregnant women gave birth to less than 2.5 kg babies while 58.76% pregnant women gave birth to above 2.5 kg babies. Significant association was found between the early pregnancy body mass index and birth weight of their babies.

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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND NEONATAL BIRTH WEIGHT, Dr. Swati Dahake, Late Dr. Ratnendra Shinde INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-8 | August-2019

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