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ABSTRACT Introduction: High prevalence of preterm infants' birth is considered a serious problem in health system in recent decades. Positions of the body in preterm neonates who receive respiratory support are accounted an important factor for ventilation and tissue oxygenation. Method: Quasi experimental multiple intervention posttest time series design was adopted for this study. Sixty preterm neonates were recruited using purposive sampling technique. Each preterm baby was placed in supine, prone, right lateral poistion.to assess the physiological parameters of heart rate, respiratory rate, SPO2, gastric residual value. Result and discussion: The comparison between the observation one and two in Heart Rate using paired 't' test show significant difference (p<0.05) for supine and prone position. There is no significant difference in right lateral position. The comparison between the observation one and two in Spo2 using paired 't' test show highly significant different (p<0.001) in prone position The 't' value for the gastric residual volume of comparison between the selected body position is 36.71 which is significant at p<0.001.It indicates the gastric residual volume low in right lateral position