Fertility intentions and the way they change following birth- a prospective longitudinal study

Table 4 Logistic regression predicting changes in fertility intentions

	No decrease in desired number of children vs. decrease in desired number of children n = 971			No increase in desired IPI vs. increase in desired IPI n = 728
	B	OR	95% CI	B	OR	95% CI
Religiosity	−2.77	0.06^**	0.01–0.47	0.03	1.03	0.48–2.20
Education	−0.85	0.43^**	0.26–0.71	−0.42	0.66	0.40–1.09
Socioeconomic status	−0.01	0.99	0.72–1.36	−0.07	0.93	0.69–1.25
Age	0.12	1.13	0.65–1.96	0.21	1.23	0.71–2.14
Parity	−0.72	0.49^**	0.30–0.80	0.55	1.73^*	1.10–2.72
Fertility treatment	−0.06	0.87	0.48–1.86	−0.57	0.56	0.26–1.23
Emergency delivery	0.12	1.13	0.62–2.07	−0.29	0.75	0.41–1.37
Birth satisfaction	−0.20	0.82	0.65–1.04	−0.46	0.63^***	0.51–0.79

Note: These analyses excluded women who were not very-religious and answered “do not know” regarding desired number of children at either time point and any women who answered “do not know” regarding desired IPI or that did not want additional children at T1. Religiosity (not very-religious = 0, very-religious = 1); Education (no higher education = 0, higher education = 1); Age (less than 35 years old = 0, 35 years old or older = 1); Parity (first birth = 0, previously birthed = 1); Fertility treatments (spontaneous conception = 0, had fertility treatments = 1); Emergency delivery (unassisted vaginal delivery or planned cesarean delivery = 0, assisted vaginal delivery or emergency cesarean delivery = 1)
^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001

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