Is there any relationship between neonatal BABIES
weight and unintended pregnancy?

Shirin Iranfar¹, Khosro Iranfar², Mahvash Ranjbar³

ABSTRACT

Objective: To determine the relationship between unintended pregnancy and neonatal weight of babies.

Methodology: It was a case-control study which included 114 women who were admitted in the post partum of a Maternity hospital in Kermanshah city in Iran. A questionnaire was used to gather the data and determine the unintended and intended pregnancies as case and control groups. The questionnaire consisted of variables such as age, mothers’ education level, parity, number of children and so on; also, an information form was utilized to collect the neonatal data such weight, height and sex. All the collected data was analyzed by Chi-Square, Fishers’ Exact test and Odds Ratio.

Results: The findings showed that all participants were housewives, 27.3% were illiterate, 46.4% had unintended pregnancies (case group). There were not significant differences between two groups in mothers’ educational level and neonatal weights and heights.

Conclusion: Among the study subjects approximately half had unintended pregnancies, but there was no relationship between neonatal/newborn weight and unintended pregnancy. It seems, the health services have some defects about counseling and instruction of emergency contraceptions, conversely they can detect the unintended pregnancies very well and present the perfect counseling and instruction during prenatal care. It is recommended to study complications of unwanted pregnancies in a large study to confirm our observations.

KEYWORDS: Unplanned pregnancies, Unintended pregnancy, Intended pregnancy, Unwanted pregnancy, Mistimed pregnancy, Neonatal weight, Neonatal height.

Pak J Med Sci    October - December 2009 (Part-I)    Vol. 25 No. 5    841-844

How to cite this article:

Iranfar SH, Iranfar KH, Ranjbar M. Is there any relationship between neonatal weight and unintended pregnancy? Pak J Med Sci 2009;25(5):841-844.

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1. Shirin Iranfar,
Lecturer,
2. Khosro Iranfar, MD
Assistant Professor,
3. Mahvash Ranjbar,
Midwife,
1-3: Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences,
Kermanshah – Iran.

Correspondence

Dr. Shirin Iranfar
Flat #2, First Floor, Mojtameh Sayeh,
Khiyaban Bargh, 22 Bahman,
Kermanshah – Iran.
Email: siranfar@yahoo.com

* Received for Publication: December 2, 2008

* Revision Received: June 24, 2009

* Revision Accepted: July 16, 2009

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