Introduction: A significant proportion of pregnancies are complicated by medical illnesses and pregnancy may adversely affect an underlying medical disorder. A successful pregnancy requires important physiological adaptation, such as marked increase in cardiac output. Medical problems that interfere with the physiological adaptation of pregnancy increases the risk for poor pregnancy outcome.¹

Aim: Our aim was to study medical illnesses in peri–partum females and its impact over pregnancy.

Materials and to Methodology: This study was retrospective enrolling 55 peripartum females, admitted in medical ward in our institute during January 2016 to August 2017.

Results and Discussion: Out of 55 patients, 45 patients were in antenatal period and only 10 patients were in postnatal period.38 patients were having infectious illnesses, while 17 patients were having non–infectious illnesses. Only 2 maternal and 1 fetal death was observed during study period.

Conclusion:

In this study, medical illnesses were more common in 3^rd trimester with age group of 21 to 25 year. Infectious medical illnesses were more common during antenatal period while non–infectious were common in postpartum period. Adverse impact on pregnancy in form of maternal or fetal mortality were only observed in noninfectious illnesses.