Table 3.

Use of different types of antibiotics during 1019 full-term deliveries

	Benzylpenicillin	Cefuroxime	Metronidazole	Clindamycin	Nitrofurantoin
All deliveries n = 1 019	157 (15.4%)a	227 (22.3%)	30 (2.9%)	14 (1.4%)	1 (0.1%)
Vaginal deliveries n = 847	140 (16.5%)	63 (7.4%)	12 (1.4%)	7 (0.8%)	1 (0.1%)
Spontaneous vaginal deliveries n = 672	97 (14.4%)	31 (4.6%)	7 (1.0%)	6 (0.9%)	1 (0.2%)
Inducted vaginal deliveries n = 175	43 (24.6%)	32 (18.3%)	5 (2.9%)	1 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)
Caesarean sections n = 172	17 (9.9%)	164 (95.3%)	18 (10.5%)	7 (4.1%)	0 (0.0%)
Elective caesarean sections n = 77	0 (0.0%)	74 (96.1%)	3 (3.9%)	2 (2.6%)	0 (0.0%)
Emergency caesarean sections n = 95	17 (17.9%)	90 (94.7%)	15 (15.8%)	5 (5.3%)	0 (0.0%)

^a48 mothers received several different antibiotics and each of them have been recorded