Summary:
This was a prospective observational study conducted on
374 pregnant women who remained in the study beginning
from first trimester until gave birth to singleton newborn
babies selected from five maternity hospitals located at
different regions in the country over a period of thirty
months from July 2002 to December 2004. Objectives of
the study were: (1) To find out the incidence of IUGR in the
hospital based study, (2) To observe the impact of prepregnancy
weight and pregnancy weight gain on IUGR,
(3) To select appropriate cut off points of pre-pregnancy
weight and pregnancy weight gain to identify women at risk
for delivering IUGR babies and (4) To observe the
association between socio-demographic factors and
maternal anthropometry.