Vaginal Delivery and Maternal Knowledge on Correct Breastfeeding Initiation Time as Predictors of Early Breastfeeding Initiation: Lesson from a Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Table 4

Bivariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with early initiation of breastfeeding among mothers who gave birth in the last 12 months in Bahir Dar City, June 2012.

Variable	Timely initiation		Crude odds ratio (95% CI)	Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)
	Yes 𝑛 (%)	No 𝑛 (%)
Average family income
100–700	195 (91.1)	19 (8.9)	1
701–1200	181 (87.9)	25 (12.1)	0.71 (0.38, 1.32)	0.64 (0.32, 1.27)
1201–2000	167 (83.5)	33 (16.5)	0.49 (0.27, 0.89)	0.50 (0.26, 0.98)
2001–20,000	166 (85.1)	29 (14.9)	0.56 (0.30, 1.03)	0.55 (0.27, 1.09)
ANC visit
Yes	680 (87.9)	94 (12.1)	2.99 (1.48, 6.07)	2.21 (0.98, 5.0)
No	29 (70.7)	12 (29.3)	1
Mode of delivery
Vaginal	652 (89.9)	73 (10.1)	5.17 (3.16, 8.46)	7.37 (4.24, 13.82)*
C/S	57 (63.3)	33 (36.7)	1
Knowledge of correct initiation time
Knowledgeable	601 (91.3)	57 (8.7)	4.78 (3.10, 7.38)	6.08 (3.71, 9.95 )*
Not knowledgeable	108 (68.8)	49 (31.2)	1

∗Significant at 𝑃 value of ≤0.05.