Table 2.

Obstetric and clinical characteristic among mothers who have postnatal care, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia, 2018

Variable	Category	Frequency	Percent %
Number of pregnancy	1	54	17.5
	≥ 2	254	82.5
Living child	1	64	20.8
	≥ 2	244	79.2
Sex of last baby	Male	189	61.4
	Female	119	38.6
Desired sex of the baby	Desired	271	71.3
	Undesired	109	28.7
Abortion	Yes	25	6.6
	No	355	93.4
Pattern of pregnancy termination	Spontaneous	47	15.3
	Induced	6	1.9
Number of termination of pregnancy	1	49	15.9
	≥ 2	4	1.3
Baby death	Yes	38	10.0
	No	342	90.0
Had a current hospitalized baby	Yes	95	30.8
	No	213	69.2
Mode of delivery	Vaginal	190	61.7
	Cesarean section	87	28.2
	Vacuum/forceps	31	10.1
Planed pregnancy	Yes	260	84.4
	No	48	15.6
Illness/complication in last pregnancy	Yes	47	12.4
	No	333	87.6