THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FOETUS GROWTH AND PREGNANCY OUTCOME AND MATERNAL BMI AND NEONATAL BIRTH WEIGHT

The associations between Low Birth Weight and a greatly elevated risk of infant mortality Hence prevention of LBW is a major public health priority. This piece of research aims to understand the relationship between the maternal BMI, foetal growth, and the pregnancy outcome. A total of 455 ultrasound observations from 229 respondents were collected using a Prospective Observational Cohort Mixed Longitudinal study design in the second and last trimester of pregnancy from one private and two government hospitals in Pune, India to document AC, HC, BPD, FL and FW from 28th to 38th weeks of gestation during August 2018 to March 2020. The statistical analysis shows that the pregnancy outcome does not differ significantly according to the foetus growth. There is no relation between foetus growth and pregnancy outcome. But maternal BMI has shown association with neonatal weight. Increase in maternal BMI shows increase in the foetal weight.