author(s)
Siddusing S Hajeri and Meenaxi Kumbar

abstract
Anemia is the most common nutritional deficiency disorder in the world. As per world Health Organization estimation, prevalence of anaemia in pregnant women is as high as 14% in developed and 51% in developing Countries. It is also observed that prevalence of anemia stand to be still higher among Indians that is 65-75%. Although anemia has been recognized as major problem for many years. Little progress has been reported and the global prevalence of anemia remains unacceptably high. An exploratory research study was used to explore the prevalence and contributing factors for anemia among antenatal mothers and 20 antenatal mothers were selected by convenient sampling method. The study result showed that Majority of samples 16 (80%) were aged between 19-21 years and remaining 04 (20%) were aged less than 24 years.