Abstract: Pregnancy is an important time for both mother and baby, a healthy diet during the pregnancy goes a long way for a healthy delivery. A proper antenatal diet should be provided for both with good nutrition for better health, during pregnancy and even years after birth. Pregnancy is a one of the physiologic vital events, which needs special care from the conception to postnatal period every mother wants to enjoy the nine months period with the baby inside her womb. The mother’s joyful experience of the pregnancy is not going to be always but sometimes it is associated with problems of some minor ailments that may present among mothers which cause discomfort to the mothers during pregnancy.2 Objectives- 1. To assess the knowledge of antenatal mothers regarding antenatal diet. 2. To find out an association between knowledge scores regarding antenatal diet among antenatal mothers with their selected socio-demographic variables. Methods- A descriptive research design was used for the present study which consisted a group of 100 samples from selected antenatal clinic at Kolhapur. Samples were selected by using non- probability purposive sampling technique. Knowledge regarding antenatal diet was assessed using structured knowledge questionnaire on antenatal diet. Results- The results revealed that, out of 100 samples, Majority 70% had average knowledge score, Minimum 11% had good knowledge score and 19% had poor knowledge score regarding antenatal diet. There is an association between knowledge scores regarding antenatal diet among antenatal mothers with their selected socio-demographic variables at 0.05 level of significance, hence hypothesis is accepted. Conclusion- Study concluded that there is an emerging need to provide information booklet on antenatal diet to antenatal mother so that will get the information about antenatal diet so that she can incorporate this knowledge during pregnancy.

Antenatal Diet, Antenatal Mother, Antenatal Clinic