**3.12 Term of delivery**

The term of delivery is definitely affected by the pre-pregnancy BMI. In our study, in underweight women, 22.73% were pre-term and 77.28% were full-term deliveries. In normal BMI range, 9.49%, 88.32% and 2.19% were pre-term, full-term and post-term deliveries respectively. In overweight women, 26.67% were pre-term and 73.33 were full-term deliveries. In obese women, a total of 13.33% deliveries were pre-term and the rest of 86.67% were normal deliveries respectively. A partial positive correlation (r = 0.166) was found between term of delivery and pre-pregnancy BMI (**Figure 20**).
