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Introduction: anemia is an important issue among pregnant women that iead to preterm delivery. Low birlt weight or stillbirth this study aimed to assess the prewvalence  of anemia in pregnant women who get iron during the first three months and the third three months  of the pregnancy and the method  and iron supplementation iron in winter 2011.

Methods: this cross sectional descriptive analysis study was conducted on 393 pregnant women referring to health centers of  ardakan city by easy sample method.

In this study for collecting data a research- based questionnaire contains 11 questions in 7 items is designed- subjects filled. Out this questionnaire in two spans of the first  and the third threemonths of pregnancy and finely data was analysed.

By using descriptive statistics and qz at the significance level of p<0.01.

Results: the results of this study showed that the prevalence of anemia in the first three months and the third three months of pregnancy was 11.34 and 12.33 respectively that indicoted the increasing trend of anemia in third three months of pregnancy.

This study did not show and significant relalionship between anemia and some factors like education pregnancy grade. The kind of iron tablet. Consumption of other food along with iron tablets time of gething iron tablet and profession of women.

Conclusion: based on the results of this study iron and consumption of other food along with iron supplement was significant based or qz test.