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Table 2 Maternal obstetrics and newborn characters

From: Level of exclusive breastfeeding and its enabling factors among lactating women who delivered in health facilities of Asosa town, Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

Variables

Number

Percent

Gravidity

  

Primigravida

49

11.9

Multigravida

245

59.5

Grand multipara

118

28.6

Antenatal care (ANC)

  

None

111

26.9

only one times

43

10.4

Twice

3

0.7

Thrice

166

40.3

Four and more

89

21.6

Postnatal care (PNC)

  

Yes

184

44.7

No

228

55.3

Gestational age (GA)

  

32–37 weeks

83

20.1

37–42 weeks

329

79.9

Child birthweight

  

< 2500 g

71

12.2

2500–4000 g

176

42.7

> 4000 g

85

20.6

Unknown

80

19.44

Breastfed the child exclusively

  

Yes

313

76.0

No

99

24.0

  1. GA was recorded in weeks from their antenatac follow-up card