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 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of the mothers with their infants (𝑛=819) among mothers who gave birth in the last 12 months in Bahir Dar City, Northwest Ethiopia, June 2012.

Variables	Frequency (%)
Maternal age (in year)
17–19	19 (2.3)
20–34	751 (91.7)
35+	49 (6.0)
Infants age (in months)
0-1	31 (3.8)
2-3	113 (13.8)
4-5	139 (17.0)
6 and above	536 (65.4)
Sex of the infants
Male	445 (54.3)
Female	374 (45.7)
Birth order of the infants
First born	360 (44.0)
2nd to 4th	438 (53.5)
5th and above	21 (2.6)
Marital status
Married	748 (91.3)
Divorced	34 (4.2)
Widowed/single/separated	37 (4.5)
Religion
Orthodox	628 (76.7)
Muslim	178 (21.7)
Protestant/Adventist	13 (1.6)
Ethnicity
Amhara	801 (97.8)
Others (Agaw, Tigre, Oromo)	18 (2.2)
Occupation of the mothers
Housewife	493 (60.2)
Government employer	150 (18.3)
Private work	62 (7.6)
Daily laborer	101 (12.3)
Others (farmer/students)	13 (1.6)
Maternal education
No formal education	261 (31.9)
Primary education	161 (19.7)
Secondary education	198 (24.2)
Tertiary education	199 (24.3)
Husband education
No formal education	177 (21.6)
Primary education	149 (18.2)
Secondary education	204 (24.9)
Tertiary education	289 (35.3)
Average monthly income
100–700	214 (26.1)
701–1200	207 (25.3)
1201–2000	200 (24.4)
2000–20,000	198 (24.2)
Access to media (radio or TV)
Yes	749 (91.5)
No	70 (8.5)
Maternal smoking
Yes	10 (1.2)
No	809 (98.8)