Black/African American women are less likely to seek prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy. Research has shown that there is a direct relationship between environmental stressors, early and continuous prenatal care and low birthweight. Many studies have examined the importance of prenatal care to ameliorate premature birth. Nevertheless, these studies have not looked at the stressors that shape women’s perception of priorities that may subsequently influence their behavior before and during pregnancy. The purpose of this study is to establish if there is a relationship among factors: prenatal care, environmental stressors, and low birthweight. A field-tested questionnaire was conducted to test: low birthweight, a dependent variable; environmental factors, an independent variable; and prenatal care, an independent variable without any attempt at experimental manipulation. A logistic regression was used to predict a dependent variable on the basis of continuous and/or categorical independents and to ascertain the percent of variance in the dependent variable describe by the independents. It was found that inadequate prenatal care was the predictor of low birthweight.