Birth interval study in a culturally stable urban population.
Five hundred women were interviewed within 2 days of delivery to examine indigenous birth spacing among the urban and rural population of Ife township. The crude birth interval was between 30 and 40 months due mainly to cultural attitudes towards lactation and sexual abstinence. The women studied possessed considerable knowledge of Western contraceptive methods, but they rejected them. The possible cause of this rejection is examined and solutions to the problem are suggested.
D001723:Birth Rate; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003469:Culture; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D009549:Nigeria; D011247:Pregnancy; D012737:Sex Factors; D012746:Sexual Abstinence; D013997:Time Factors; D014505:Urban Population