Pregnancy can be a difficult time for most women. With morning sickness and nervousness all rolled into one the stress of having a healthy baby can wreak havoc in a woman's life. According to the UNICEF 247 women died during child birth out of 100000 live births between the year 2004-2006 in India and an equally large number of babies perished at birth as well. A number of reasons have been attributed to this sad statistic including prolonged labour ill health early pregnancies and malnutrition. So what could be going wrong? We spoke to Dr Uma Vaidyanathan a renowned gynaecologist