title: Maternity care monitoring in Ibadan, Nigeria.
abstract: During this hospital stay, 993 women delivered 1008 infants at University College Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria from January through June 1977. The stillbirth rate was 45.4 per 1000 deliveries; the neonatal mortality rate was 20.2 per 1000 deliveries. Significant differences occurred in patient characteristics, antenatal care, and complications of labour/delivery between those patients with favourable and unfavourable birth outcomes. As expected from all previous reports, the rate of multiple births was very high: 37 sets of twins and 3 sets of triplets. Contraceptive acceptance rose after delivery from 17.1% to 63.5% accepting some method. Orals were the most popular choice both antepartum and postpartum.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003267:Contraception; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D009549:Nigeria; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012306:Risk