Objective: This study was carried out to determine therelationship of infant mortality with socio-demographicalcharacteristics and prenatal-natal service utility.Materials and Methods: The case control study wascarried out in Konya province in 2007. The infants ofwhom provincial directorate of health was informed asdead during a year were the case group; the infants whowere selected via one-to-one correspondence method,born alive and still live were the control group. Addresses of 541 infants were visited to gain the consent ofmothers and information was collected via survey. Besides, infant and child monitoring forms, household determination form of the family, pregnant and puerperalmonitoring forms were evaluated. Information about 444cases and controls in total was gathered except for theones that could not be reached due to various reasons.Results: Of 444 infants who were dead in a year inKonya province and whose families and records couldbe reached 57.0% were male, 43.0% female, and 64.4%were dead early neonatal, 7.9% late neonatal and 27.7%post neonatal. Of the mothers of the dead infants 4.1%were at age 18 and under, 14.6% at age 35 and over. Infant mortality was correlated with low birth weight, notpaying home visits during pregnancy, 4 and more pregnancies, kin marriage and pregnancy gap being lessthan 2 years. No relationship between other demograph- ical and fertility characteristics and infant death was determined.Result: It was found out that to develop the number andquality of monitoring in pregnancy, and to hinder consanguineous marriage and extreme fertility may decrease infant mortality.