In developing countries like India, Low Birth Weight or preterm babies have always been a cause of concern, as in the existing compromised conditions of healthcare, their survival has always been a cause of concern. The current study was a cross sectional analysis done for 149 babies who had weight less than the normal, delivered in a tertiary care hospital and were analysed for survival outcomes, that is , discharge or admission into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU) or death over a period of one month. The data was taken as a tool to develop tentative risk criteria for the urban women regarding an antenatal alert for low birth weight babies and also the possible vulnerabilities that these babies face after birth. 57% of the women were primigravida; nearly 15% were multi gravida 4, 81% were delivered by caesarean section; 2.68% deaths were reported and the range of admission varied from 1-150 days. Age of the mother (mean weight being1.100211± .11112) and a history of abortions (1.677±.4251503) are emerging as predictors. The range of days of hospitalization of such babies varies from 1 to 150 days and fetal distress was identified as the major cause in 18.1% of cases and also the cause of death in 4 out of the sample of 149.This clearly brings out the needs of equipping our centres with qualitative NICU set ups for sound management and survival of such new-born.
