ArticlePerspectives on sexual and reproductive health2012
Prenatal care and subsequent birth intervals.
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- Outreach and integration programs to promote family planning in the extended postpartum period.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2014Pooled it
- Comparing approaches to identify live births using the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System.Health services research · 2024Article
- Interbirth Intervals of Immigrant and Refugee Women in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of MCH and AIDS · 2023Article
- Intentionally or Ambivalently Risking a Short Interpregnancy Interval: Reproductive-Readiness Factors in Women's Postpartum Non-Use of Contraception.Demography · 2020Article
- Factors Associated with Inadequate Birth Intervals in the BRISA Birth Cohort, Brazil.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2020Article
- Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in child undernutrition: Evidence from Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (2003 - 2013).PloS one · 2019Article
- Disparities in Self-Reported Prenatal Counseling: Does Immigrant Status Matter?Journal of community health · 2018Article
- Outcome-dependent associations between short interpregnancy interval and offspring psychological and educational problems: a population-based quasi-experimental study.International journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Within-Family Analysis of Interpregnancy Interval and Adverse Birth Outcomes.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2017Article
- Effects of prenatal care on child health at age 5.Maternal and child health journal · 2013Article
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Abstract
contextPrenatal care generally includes contraceptive and health education that may help women to control their subsequent fertility. However, research has not examined whether receipt of prenatal care is associated with subsequent birthspacing.
methodsLongitudinally linked birth records from 113,662 New Jersey women who had had a first birth in 1996-2000 were used to examine associations between the timing and adequacy of prenatal care prior to a woman's first birth and the timing of her second birth. Multinomial logistic regression analyses adjusted for social and demographic characteristics, hospital and year of birth.
resultsMost women (85%) had initiated prenatal care during the first trimester. Women who had not obtained prenatal care until the second or third trimester, or at all, were more likely than those who had had first-trimester care to have a second child within 18 months, rather than in 18-59 months (odds ratios, 1.2-1.6). Similarly, women whose care had been inadequate were more likely than those who had had adequate care to have a short subsequent birth interval (1.2). The associations were robust to alternative measures of prenatal care and birth intervals, and were strongest for mothers with less than 16 years of education.
conclusionsProviders should capitalize on their limited encounters with mothers who initiate prenatal care late or use it sporadically to ensure that these women receive information about family planning.
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