The larger reductions in the incidence of low birthweight, prematurity, and neonatal mortality suggest that nutrition intervention programs may be more effective in impacting on the poorer outcomes of pregnancy. Those at the lowest end of the birth outcome distribution seem to have benefited most from the WIC participation. It is these high risk births that public health programs such as WIC are trying to reduce; these are the births associated with later childhood morbidity, developmental delays, and higher usage of health and special education services." The magnitude of the decrease in LBW infants (21 per cent) seen in this study is consistent with the prior WIC studies by Edozien, et al,3 and Kennedy, et al,4 which noted 23 per cent and 32 per cent LBW reductions, respectively.