Anemia in pregnant mother and low birth weight
Abstract: Anemia in pregnancy
has an adverse effect on the mother, both in pregnancy, childbirth and in the
puerperium and later on. Various complications can arise from anemia,such as:
abortion, prematurus partus, old partus, bleeding, shock, infection both
inpartum andpostpartum. The most common anemia in pregnancy is iron deficiency
anemia. The purpose of this study was to determine the association of anemia
with low birth weight
Methods: Disain in this study was cross sectional approach. The data used
is secondary data obtained from medical records in RSUD Dr.Adjidarmo Rangkas
Bitung. The population in this study is all the babies who were born in Dr.
RSUD. Adjidarmo Hospital Year 2016, the samplesize is calculated by different
hypothesis test formula for 2 population proportion (two sided test) with the
minimal sample 82 respondents.
Results: Majority of mothers with anemia who gave birth to LBW infants
were 66.0% of statistical test results obtained p value 0,000, it was concluded
that there was a relationshipbetween anemia factor with the incidence of BBLR
Conclusions: Pregnant women with anemia tend to have an impact on the
fetus, because the fetus in the womb absorbs the needs of the mother. If the
pregnant woman has anemia then themetabolic system in the body is disrupted. So
it can inhibit the growth of the fetus in the womb that resulted in baby BBLR.
Adequate health education related to pregnancy anemia and prevention of anemia
during pregnancy need to be done to prevent LBW occurrence.
Keywords: Nutritional status
of pregnant women, low birth weight
Penulis: Ria Damayanti, Siti
Nurzannah
Kode Jurnal: jpkebidanandd170121
