Abstract
Background: The birth weight of the newborn determines the health and survival of the newborn. Birth weight depends upon maternal factors such as the nutritional status of the mother, gestational age, multiple gestations, hemoglobin status, weight of the mother, complications of labour such as diabetes, hypertension, seizures, cardiac defects, bleeding manifestations, chronic illness and substance abuse. Methods It's a retrospective study conducted at Tagore medical college and hospital. Data collection was drawn on 100women for the age of the mother at the time of delivery, parity, gestational age, hemoglobin status, the weight of the mother, weight of the newborn, blood sugar, and blood pressure from July 2018- July 2019. Results: In our study low birth weight seems to be associated with anaemic mothers with a significant p-value of 0.00. Also, underweight mothers delivered 71.43% of low birth weight babies, normal, overweight and obese mothers delivered 82.35%, 84.21% and 100% normal weight babies which are statistically significant, represented by a p-value of 0.004 in our study. LBW in mothers of age group 18-24yrs 12(27.27%) in our study is high when compared to babies born between 25-31years 7(15.22%) and 10% in the age group between 32-38yrs.
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