Table 7.

Perceived barriers to receiving early prenatal care

Perceived barrier	Na (%)b
Was not aware of pregnancy status	917 (42.3%)
No appointments available when they wanted one	755 (38.1%)
Unable to afford the visits	452 (28.2%)
Doctor or health plan would not start prenatal care as early as they wanted	463 (27.3%)
No Medicaid card	392 (22.5%)
Too busy	326 (15.4%)
Lack of transportation	238 (10.7%)
Did not want to disclose pregnancy status	221 (9.5%)
No leave at work/school	184 (8.2%)
Lack of child care did not want prenatal care	134 (7.0%) 92 (3.2%)

^a Number of women from unweighted sample distribution

^b Percentages were weighted to account for deliberate survey oversampling and nonresponse and non-coverage