Table 2. Women views on gender role impacts on attaining their reproductive care needs.
| Theme 1 | Women accounts |
|---|---|
| Gendered role impacts on reproductive care | “Of choices, we often have them before we arrive at the facility. But sometimes we make these decisions with other women and peers since we cannot discuss these issues with our husbands”-w1. |
| “we value our social norms on fertility too, so we often struggle to balance this with reproductive services that demand we stop childbearing”-w2 | |
| “Our society requires male spouses to dictate how and when we should have sex and pleasure, but women ability to support as breadwinner makes other household decisions helps us sometimes have autonomy for our childbearing needs.”-w3 | |
| “some women covertly use contraceptives to avoid conflict at home, and keep men responsive to their needs”-w4 | |
| “Our male spouses have power to demand sex we cannot deny, but we too have power to deny the effects when we use family planning services provided us at facility.”-w5 | |
| “Although people advocate for male spouse to limit or space births, we will be happy if the conversation should be asking males spouses to respect our individual psychological needs because childbearing puts so much stress on us and our children…”-w6 | |
| “advocating for us to make our birthing and postpartum services inclusive with our male spouses will be problematic because we need to take good decisions concerning our well-being”-w7 | |
| “Health staff just listen and ignore our problems on clinic opening times, sometimes when you live far and would wish to hold you in a holding bay until your labor starts….”-w8 | |
| “They shout when we are going through pain at childbirth, simply because your life is dependent upon them ….such experiences will inform us change different facility or consider friendlier home care using a traditional birth attendant…”w9 | |
| “I just obey what the nurse say I should do without questioning at antenatal, otherwise, you are skipped since so many women are waiting for the same service”-w10 | |
| “Male volunteers help us a lot, always willing to listen and refer us to nurses when we have concerns on reproductive services”-w11 |
Wn -W represents women views and superscript indicates number of record presented in table