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Introduction: Birth weight is vital to an infant’s long-term health and development. This study aims to assess the birth weight of babies born to Saudi women in the Jazan region and to determine the maternal risks influencing it. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study covered all the women who delivered babies in three hospitals. Data were gathered from the participants using a semi-structured questionnaire administered during a face-to-face interview, and the birth weight was measured immediately after the baby’s delivery. Results: Of 403 delivered women, 62% were between 21 and 34 years old, with 63% coming from the rural coastal part of the region. About 86% had regular antenatal care visits, ranging between 5 and 9 visits in more than half of the women. Among the participants women, 2.7% were smokers, 4.7% had hypertension, 4.7% had diabetes mellitus, and 27.5% had anemia. Regarding the neonatal outcomes, 55% gave birth to male newborns, and the mode of delivery was normal vaginal in about 69%. The gestational age was a term completing more than 37 weeks in about 92% of women, and the birth weight was 2.961 ± .51; however, 13.4% were low birth-weight newborns (35 years is associated with low birth weight (LBW; odds ratio = 1.86, 95% confidence interval = 1.00–3.46). Conclusion: Although overall birth weight showed normal distribution, the mother’s occupation, smoking, and increased maternal age were all linked to LBW. Therefore, we recommend further studies that include more maternal risk factors.

Abstract Objective In Ethiopia skilled deliveries are increasing but stillbirth is not reducing as required. However; there are limited numbers of up to date studies done related to stillbirth in the study area. Therefore this was aimed to assess the prevalence and determinants of stillbirth using facility based cross-sectional study among women attended deliveries at Aksum General Hospital in 2018. Systematic random sampling method was used to select 573 study participants from the deliveries attended during the study period. The data was entered into Epi-data version 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for Social Science version 21 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis were conducted to identify significant predictors and strength of association was measured based on adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence level and statistical significance was declared at p-value less than 0.05. Results The prevalence of stillbirth was 3.68% in this study area. Maternal age 20–35 (AOR = 0.25; 95% CI (0.08, 0.80)), not using partograph (AOR = 8.66; 95% CI (2.88, 26.10)) and gestational age

Objective: In Ethiopia skilled deliveries are increasing but stillbirth is not reducing as required. However; there are limited numbers of up to date studies done related to stillbirth in the study area. Therefore this was aimed to assess the prevalence and determinants of stillbirth using facility based cross-sectional study among women attended deliveries at Aksum General Hospital in 2018. Systematic random sampling method was used to select 573 study participants from the deliveries attended during the study period. The data was entered into Epi-data version 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for Social Science version 21 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis were conducted to identify significant predictors and strength of association was measured based on adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence level and statistical significance was declared at p-value less than 0.05. Results: The prevalence of stillbirth was 3.68% in this study area. Maternal age 20–35 (AOR = 0.25; 95% CI (0.08, 0.80)), not using partograph (AOR = 8.66; 95% CI (2.88, 26.10)) and gestational age < 37 weeks (AOR = 3.86; 95% CI (1.27, 11.69)) were the independent factors affecting the stillbirth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]