A small number of differentially methylated regions/cytosines (1–2 DMRs and/or 1–10 DMCs outside the DMRs) was associated with the usage of epidural anaesthetic during delivery, 1 minute Apgar points, maternal age and height, gestational weight gain, maternal smoking, and maternal insulin-treated diabetes, but not with the birth weight of the newborn infant, maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, number of earlier miscarriages, the mode of delivery, labour induction or the cosine transformed month of birth. Here, INS is linked to diabetes mellitus.