Table 2 Maternal health service related and obstetric characteristics (n = 579), Sorro District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia, Aug 2015
Variable | Number | Percent | |
|---|---|---|---|
Antenatal care | Yes | 363 | 62.7 |
No | 216 | 37.3 | |
No of antenatal visits (n = 363) | one | 98 | 27.0 |
two up to three | 204 | 56.2 | |
four and above | 58 | 16.0 | |
Don’t know | 3 | 0.8 | |
Counseled on breastfeeding during antenatal visits (n = 363) | Yes | 284 | 78.2 |
No | 79 | 21.8 | |
Place of delivery | Home | 481 | 83.1 |
Health facility | 98 | 16.9 | |
Delivery assistant | Traditional birth attendant | 441 | 76.2 |
Health professional | 96 | 16.6 | |
Otherɍ | 42 | 7.3 | |
Mode of delivery | Vaginally | 577 | 99.7 |
Caesarean section | 2 | 0.3 | |
Received postnatal care | Yes | 367 | 63.4 |
No | 212 | 36.6 | |
Counseled on breastfeeding during postnatal visit (n = 367) | Yes | 332 | 90.5 |
No | 35 | 9.5 | |