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Table 4 Maternal health problems experienced at home within 10 days of birth

From: Revising acute care systems and processes to improve breastfeeding and maternal postnatal health: a pre and post intervention study in one English maternity unit

Health problem

Pre intervention (N = 741)

Post intervention (N = 725)

(95% CI) †

pvalue (adjusted)

Fever/high temperature

90 (12.1%)

72 (9.9%)

0.806 (0.571, 1.140)

NS

Excessive vaginal bleeding

53 (7.2%)

46 (6.3%)

0.871 (0.566, 1.341)

NS

Offensive vaginal loss

25 (3.4%)

10 (1.4%)

0.369 (0.169, 0.807)

0.012

Severe or persistent headache

81 (10.9%)

78 (10.8%)

0.990 (0.699, 1.401)

NS

Perineal pain

215 (29.0%)

188 (25.9%)

1.091 (0.829, 1.436)

NS

Haemorrhoids

164 (22.1%)

150 (20.7%)

0.994 (0.761, 1.298)

NS

Constipation

232 (31.3%)

185 (25.5%)

0.719 (0.560, 0.925)

0.010

Difficulty passing urine

45 (6.1%)

26 (3.6%)

0.580 (0.342, 0.986)

0.044

Caesarean wound problems

46 (22.0%)

49 (20.3%)

0.983 (0.612, 1.579)

NS

Backache

251 (33.9%)

217 (29.9%)

0.860 (0.682, 1.085)

NS

Mastitis

49 (6.6%)

29 (4.0%)

0.605 (0.369, 0.990)

0.046

  1. † odds ratio.