Abstract:
Hospital based exploratory case control study . All mothers who deliver live babies with low
birth weight ( 2500g) after completion of 28 weeks of gestation ( n2500g) next to the low
birth weight delivery of the same unit ( n=78). Multiple deliveries, still birth and POA 28/S2
of . gestation excluded from the study . Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data
regarding the anthropometries measurement of mother. Socio -demographic data,
information on current and past pregnancy and out come of the current pregnancy
