FACTORS INFLUENCING BIRTH PREPAREDNESS

Birth preparedness and complication readiness is an action taken to make easy safe delivery by making plan before birth. Pregnant women are encouraged to make a plan ahead to have trained health care providers at every birth and it also raises awareness of serious warning signs among women, families and communities, which improves problem identification and decreases delaying the decision to seek care. The relevant research papers were found on PubMed, Research gate, Google scholar, Sage Journals, and Science Direct. The study result shows that there are several factors which influences the birth preparation and practices among pregnant women that may impact the health of the mother and the baby as well. The poor birth preparedness were found in young age mother, women who are unmarried, women with lower educational status, women who did not get good support by partner, poor attendance of antenatal visit, poor attitudes towards birth preparation, women living in rural area and who live far from hospital, less in number of pregnancy, low socio-economic status, women who perform cultural and religion practices.