Background: Preterm birth complications are the predominant causes of the Under 5- mortality rate, causing nearly 1 million deaths in 2015. Late preterm neonates contribute to 71% of all preterm births. Aim: To study the short-term outcome of late preterm newborns in the early neonatal period. Methods and Material: A single-centre prospective observational study of 50 late preterm babies born in the gestational period of 34-(0/7) to 36-(6/7) weeks at the Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, whose gestational age, confirmed by New Ballard Score were enrolled during the study period of November 2015- June 2017 (20 months) after meeting inclusion criteria. Results: The average gestational age and weight of the late preterm babies in the study group were 35 weeks 2 days (SD=0.78) and 2535.4 gm (SD = 335.67) respectively. 48% of all late preterm new-borns in this study had a gestational age of 36 weeks 0/6 to 36 weeks 6/7 indicating pregnancies in these number of mothers continuing closer to the term gestation and 34% of the late preterm were small for gestational age, thus making them susceptible for early morbidities. Late preterm babies are vulnerable to the complications of prematurity. They are at risk for early complications such as respiratory difficulty, neonatal jaundice, hypothermia, feeding difficulties, hypoglycaemia, and sepsis, etc. Conclusions: Late preterm babies are at risk for increased early neonatal morbidities such as respiratory distress, neonatal jaundice, hypothermia, feeding difficulties, hypoglycemia, and neonatal sepsis. Many maternal and neonatal risk factors like pregnancy-induced hypertension and IUGR are associated with late preterm births. Mortality was more in late preterm babies.