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Table 2 Maternal health service utilization and breastfeeding related factors first-time mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar City, North west Ethiopia, 2016

From: Colostrum avoidance practice among primipara mothers in urban Northwest Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study

Variable

Category (n = 398)

Frequency

Percent (%)

Got ANC follow up

Yes

361

90.7

No

37

9.3

Place of ANC (n = 361)

Hospital

67

18.6

Health Centre

220

60.9

Private clinic

74

20.5

Number of ANC(n = 361)

< 3 times

132

36.6

≥4times

229

63.4

ANC breastfeeding counseling (n = 361)

Yes

276

76.5

No

85

23.5

Place of delivery

Health institutions

344

86.4

Home

54

13.6

Mode of delivery

Normal/vaginal

327

82.2

C/S

71

17.8

Early initiation of breast feeding

< 1 h

259

65.1

> 1 h

139

34.9

Breast fed exclusively

Yes

228

57.3

No

170

42.7

Colostrum avoidance

Yes

35

8.8

No

363

91.2

Reasons to avoid colostrum

infant unable to feed

34

8.5

Bad for infant

140

35.2

yellow and creamiest

156

39.2

Due tradition/culture

68

17.1

Pre-lacteal feeding practice

Yes

63

15.8

No

335

84.2

Prelacteal foods given(n = 63)

Water

20

31.8

Butter

30

47.6

Others a*

13

20.6

  

17.1

Who influenced you to give other foods?

My Own Decision

90

24.2

My Husband

108

29.0

My Mother

76

20.4

My Mother In Law

58

15.6

Others b*

40

10.8

Faced any breast feeding problem?

Yes

264

66.3

No

134

33.7

Husband support in breast feeding(n = 397)

Yes

355

89.4

No

42

10.6

Cultural support of breast feeding

Yes

52

13.1

No

346

86.9

  1. a* = cow’s milk, sugar solution, Honey b* = Friends, neighbors, members of extended family