Abstract

Dr. Komal Sambhajirao Olekar and Dr. Sunitha Joshi

ABSTRACT

High risk pregnancies are the pregnancy where the mother or fetus has higher chance of health problem or pre term delivery than a typical delivery. The prevalence of high risk pregnancies among Indian women was 49.4%, with 33% of women having a sing le high risk, and 16.4% having multiple high risk pregnancies. pregnancies.[ Changing lifestyle, food habits, late marriages, late age pregnancies are some of the contributing factors for high risk pregnancy. In ayurveda they mentioned some condition which leads to o r which we can relate to high risk pregnancy but they did not mention directly as high risk pregnancy. Asatmya ahara vihara, not following the various regimens described by ayurveda at various stage leads to high risk pregnancy.