Table 3 Planned and actual place of birth in relation to parity
From: The quality of maternity care services as experienced by women in the Netherlands
primary care | secondary care | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
at home | birth centre | hospital with own midwife | hospital with gynecologist | don't know yet/no answer/elsewhere | |
All pregnant women (n = 793)** | |||||
Where are you planning to give birth? | 38.7% | 1.2% | 26.5% | 24.0% | 9.7% |
nulliparae (n = 348) | 37.6% | 2.0% | 31.6% | 18.1% | 10.6% |
parae (n = 428) | 39.5% | 0.5% | 22.4% | 28.7% | 8.9% |
All postpartum women (n = 632)*** | |||||
Where did you give birth? | 30.6% | 0.6% | 15.0% | 49.6% | 4.2% |
primiparae (n = 280) | 16.4% | 0.7% | 15.7% | 61.1% | 6.1% |
multiparae (n = 341) | 42.2% | 0.6% | 14.4% | 40.2% | 2.6% |