**5. Conclusion**

The percentage of pregnant women with normal BMI range is maximum followed by underweight, overweight and obese in Ahmedabad region. A partial negative co-relation was observed between socio-economic status and term of delivery. Moreover, there was a partial positive association of socio-economic class and type of family with type of delivery. In the women with previous caesarean section delivery, the risk of current delivery to be of caesarean section type increases. Additionally, it was observed that as the number of abortions/miscarriage increases, the chances of caesarean section increases. A negative partial correlation of physical stress is observed with term of delivery. Stress and dietary habits too modify the term of delivery, type of delivery and infant birth weight. As pre-pregnancy BMI increases, term of delivery decreases. As GWG decreases, the infant birth weight decreases. Present study found that the incidence of LBW and HBW was more in obese women compared to women with normal or underweight BMI.

### **Abbreviations**


*Current Topics in Caesarean Section*
