Community-Based Essential Newborn Care Practices and Associated Factors among Women of Enderta, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018

Table 3

Practice of women who have children less than 12 months on essential newborn care, at Enderta district, southeast Tigray, North Ethiopia, 2017.

Variables	Characteristics	Frequency (percentage)
Essential newborn care practice	Yes	258 (40.7)
	No	376 (59.3)
Where do you put immediately after birth	On the mothers chest	429 (67.7)
	Others	205 (32.3)
Cord cutting instrument	New or boiled razor blade	573 (90.4)
	Used razor blade	61 (9.6)
Material used to tie cord	New string	542 (85.5)
	Other	92 (14.5)
Time of initiation of breastfeeding	Within 1 hour	458 (72.2)
	After 1 hour	176 (27.8)
Frequency of breastfeeding practices per day	<8 times	69 (10.9)
	≥8 times	565 (89.1)
Time of wash for the first time for newborn	After 24 hours	473 (74.6)
	Within 24 hours	161 (25.4)
Time of drying and wrapping the newborn	After delivery of placenta	274 (43.2)
	Do not know	23 (3.6)
	Before delivery of placenta	337 (53.2)
Did your baby received eye ointment from health care provider immediately after birth	Yes	571 (90.1)
	No	63 (9.9)
Did they apply anything on the baby’s eye except ordered medication	Yes	267 (42.1)
	No	367 (57.9)
Types of some thing applied on the eye’s of new born except ordered medication by health provider	Kuheli	236 (88.3)
	Butter	31 (12.7)
Did you apply anything to the cord	Yes	131 (20.7)
	No	503 (79.3)
What did you do the first milk or colostrum	Gave to baby	603 (95.1)
	Withdraw	31(4.9)
Was your baby vaccinated immediately after birth for BCG on the right	Yes	398 (62.8)
	No	236 (37.2)
What material was used to cut the umbilical cord	New and boiled razor	571 (90.1)
	Previously used razor	63 (9.9)
What material was applied on the cord	Butter applied	98 (73.8)
	Vaseline	25 (19.1)
	Animal dug	8 (6.1%)
Placement of the baby	On the mother’s chest/belly	429 (67.7)
	Beside the mother	151 (23.8)
	On newborn bed/table	46 (7.3)
	Do not know	8 (1.3)
Initiation of breastfeeding	Within one hour	518 (81.7)
	2-24 hours after birth	16 (2.5)
	After 24 hours	100 (15.8)
Do you know danger sign	Yes	563 (88.8)
	No	71 (11.2)