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OBJECTIVE: To access the pregnancy and delivery in the early thirties. METHODS: From January 1994 to December 2003, we statistically compared and investigated the 21,744 deliveries in Sung Ae Hospital, considering pregnant women aged 30-34 as study groups, and pregnant women aged 35 or older (elderly gravidas) as control groups. RESULTS: The rate of Cesarean section, preterm delivery, gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, placenta previa, placenta abruptio, low birth weight was low statistically in the study groups. But, the percentage of the pregnant complication in the early thirties were increased than of in pregnant women younger than 30. CONCLUSION: Pregnant women in the early thirties were safer from the maternal complication, and neonatal complication than women aged 35 or older (elderly gravidas), but were exposed to these illnesses more than women aged younger than 30. Therefore, to improve the pregnant outcome of women in the early thirties, it is needed to concern their pregnancy and delivery and to take care of before and after childbirth thorougly.