Introduction: Pregnancy being a major psychological, as well as, physiological event it is also one of the delighted moments in a women's life, but for most of them it's a time of confusion, fear, anxiety, stress and even depression, with an excess of chronic life stressors they find themselves unable to cope with the additional demands of pregnancy. Aims and Objectives: To determine the pervasiveness and risk factors of ante partum depression in a cohort of 300 pregnant women attending outpatient department of obstetrics and gynecology at