Table 2.
Timing and frequency of prenatal visit, delivery care and time to initiation of breastfeeding by county
| County | Total sample | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xun Yi | Bing | Lin You | Qian Yang | Zhou Zhi | ||
| Number of pregnant women | 949 | 919 | 956 | 937 | 945 | 4706 |
| Number of prenatal visits during pregnancy, mean(SD)* | 3.52(1.68) | 3.43(1.67) | 4.90(2.32) | 6.58(3.04) | 5.07(2.84) | 4.67(2.63) |
| Number of prenatal visits in 0-3month of pregnancy | 0.73(0.63) | 0.77(0.67) | 1.02(0.65) | 1.23(0.76) | 0.81(0.73) | 0.91(0.71) |
| Number of prenatal visits in 4-6month of pregnancy | 1.14(0.74) | 1.05(0.78) | 1.64(0.98) | 2.20(1.15) | 1.69(1.14) | 1.54(1.05) |
| Number of prenatal visits after 7 month of pregnancy | 1.66(1.01) | 1.61(0.95) | 2.24(1.34) | 3.22(1.96) | 2.56(1.82) | 2.24(1.58) |
| Delivery place | ||||||
| Home | 56(6.1) | 38(4.2) | 11(1.2) | 4(0.4) | 32(3.4) | 141(3.0) |
| Township | 155(16.7) | 134(14.6) | 30(3.2) | 5(0.5) | 75(8.0) | 399(8.6) |
| County | 648(69.9) | 696(76.1) | 882(92.7) | 870(93.3) | 785(83.6) | 3881(83.2) |
| Above county | 68(7.3) | 47(5.1) | 28(2.9) | 54(5.8) | 47(5.0) | 244(5.2) |
| Time to initiation of breastfeeding | ||||||
| No feeding | 129(13.9) | 166(18.7) | 43(4.7) | 87(10.8) | 158(17.4) | 583(13.2) |
| ≤1 h | 5(0.5) | 4(0.5) | 7(0.8) | 36(4.5) | 17(1.9) | 69(1.6) |
| 1-24 h | 48(5.2) | 69(7.8) | 184(20.2) | 222(27.6) | 154(17.0) | 677(15.3) |
| >24 h | 744(80.4) | 646(73.0) | 678(74.3) | 459(57.1) | 577(63.7) | 3104(70.0) |
*Reported as mean and SD (standard deviation).