Table 4 Birth Attendant Practices (%)
From: Home birth attendants in low income countries: who are they and what do they do?
| Â | Home Birth Attendants | Auxilliary Nurse Midwives | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Practice | DRC | Zambia | Kenya | Guatemala | Pakistan | Nagpur, India | Total | India |
Number enrolled | 102 | 208 | 100 | 434 | 105 | 103 | 1052 | 174 |
Always use clean birth kit | 2.0 | 61.1 | 100 | 92.9 | 77.1 | 59.2 | 73.6 | 98.3 |
Always take blood pressure | 1.0 | 19.2 | 0.0 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 7.6 | 93.7 |
Ever repair vaginal laceration | 1.0 | 8.2 | 4.0 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 65.3 |
Ever perform episiotomy | 0.0 | 7.2 | 22.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 50.3 |
Always use bulb suction | 69.9 | 12.5 | 2.0 | 85.7 | 8.6 | 16.5 | 47.2 | 55.8 |
Always clean mouth with gauze | 61.8 | 79.3 | 98.0 | 93.8 | 98.1 | 93.2 | 88.6 | 97.7 |
Always dry baby | 95.1 | 98.6 | 97.0 | 99.1 | 93.3 | 82.5 | 96.2 | 91.2 |
Always spank or shake baby to stimulate breathing | 64.4 | 51.0 | 14.0 | 56.9 | 51.4 | 66.0 | 52.7 | 51.5 |