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Background: Various maternal factors could help to determine the health status of newborns. The important contributors of child survival are good maternal health care and nutrition. Maternal infections and other poor conditions usually contribute as an indicator of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Some of the maternal factors reflect the genetic blueprint laid down for the newborn. Thus, newborn characteristics echo a complex combination of various maternal factors. Material and methods: A descriptive cross sectional study is conducted at academic tertiary referral hospital with 100 newborns and their biological mothers by using non probability sampling to find the effect of selected maternal factors on birth characteristics of newborns by using structured proforma and descriptive inferential statistics was used to analyze the data. Result: Among all samples 98% of newborns had no depression, 88% newborns anthropometry was normal and 95% newborns were appropriate to term gestation. Selected maternal factors had positive correlation on birth characteristics of newborns (r = 0.9) Conclusion: It emphasis that selected maternal factors is good predictors of newborn characteristics. There by the future risk for complications, morbidity and mortality rate of mothers and newborns can be prevented by simple awareness in general population of mothers for improving health status and future development of newborns