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Study of the neonatal outcomes in babies born to elderly mothers and young mothers

Background More and more women are focusing on obtaining higher education and reaching career objectives. This has in turn, lead to delayed marriage and child birth at a later age. Advanced maternal age at birth has been found to be associated with preterm delivery, low birth weight, intrauterine fetal death and increased perinatal morbidity and mortality. The aim of our study was to know the neonatal outcome in elderly mothers and young mothers, and to compare the neonatal outcome of these two groups.

Methods Present study was a cross sectional, analytical case control study, done in babies delivered to mothers >35 years and 35 years) than the control group (babies born to mothers between 19 to 35 years).

Conclusions It was observed that low birth weight, prematurity and NICU admissions were more common in babies born to elderly mothers.