Relationships between pregnancy spacing, sex of infants, maternal age, and birth order, and neonatal and post‐neonatal mortality in Bangladesh

Swenson, Ingrid

doi:10.1080/19485565.1981.9988466

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“…Such a higher infant mortality risk among children with preceding sibling dead has been observed in a number of similar studies in the developing countries (Cleland & Sathar, 1984;Gubhaju, 1984;Hull & Gubhaju, 1986;Kim, 1986;Park, 1986). This finding confirms a prospective study from IMatlab, Bangladesh, which showed a higher incidence of neonatal and post-neonatal mortality among mothers who had lost two or more children than those who had lost one or no children (Swenson, 1981). It is possible that infants of such a high risk group of mothers share either inadequate intrauterine environments or incompetence in rearing that diminish the survival chances of successive children.…”

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Child survival and its effect on mortality of siblings in Bangladesh

Majumder

1990

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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This study of the relationship between mortality risks of siblings born to the same mother shows that, in Bangladesh, the death of the immediately preceding sibling in its infancy has a negative influence on the survival chance of the child in question in its infancy; however, death of the preceding sibling appears to have a positive influence on the index child's survival at ages 1-5 years. Similar results are found for the survival status of the two preceding siblings. Preceding birth interval length and survival status and sex of the immediately preceding sibling are also significant predictors of child mortality between ages 1 and 5 years. Possible explanations may be that the index child faces stronger competition from its immediately preceding brother than from its immediately preceding sister, or that the index child is likely to be looked after more by its preceding sister than by its preceding brother.

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Child survival and its effect on mortality of siblings in Bangladesh

Majumder

1990

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…This analysis of national retrospective data largely corroborates several conclusions of prospective data from Matlab thana, Bangladesh (Swenson, 1978;Swenson & Harper, 1979;Swenson, 1981). Both studies stress the important deleterious effect of short birth intervals on the survival chances of infants and emphasize the relatively higher mortality of infants born to very young mothers.…”

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Demographic and Maternal Correlates of Infant and Child Mortality in Bangladesh

Edmonston

1983

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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This paper analyses the influence of maternal factors (mother's age, parity, prior birth interval, and subsequent birth interval) on mortality risk for 2150 Bangladeshi infants and children, taking the sex and age of the child into account. Logistic regression estimates from retrospective maternal birth histories for the period 1966-75 reveal age and sex patterns consistent with previous research. These estimates also demonstrate that there are associations with mother's age and parity, but that prior birth interval emerges as the strongest predictor of mortality risk. It appears that part of the mortality risk of mother's age and parity actually stems from association with shorter prior birth interval, a factor to which infant and child health programmes need to give more attention.

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“…In another study using the WFS data from eight countries,19 multivariate models produced similar results when controlling for maternal age at conception, pregnancy order, maternal schooling, and place of residence. A study in Bangladesh, however, found no relationship between late fetal death (≥28 weeks of gestation) and short IPIs (<12 months) compared with intervals longer than 24 months 9,20. A study in Ethiopia21 found that abortions and stillbirths were much more common among birth-to-outcome intervals less than 1 year among a sample of 1549 pregnancies, but no other variables were controlled, and spontaneous abortions were grouped with induced abortions.…”

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Effects of interpregnancy interval and outcome of the preceding pregnancy on pregnancy outcomes in Matlab, Bangladesh

DaVanzo

Hale

Razzaque

et al. 2007

BJOG

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Objective To estimate the effects on pregnancy outcomes of the duration of the preceding interpregnancy interval (IPI) and type of pregnancy outcome that began the interval.Design Observational population-based study. Results When socio-economic and demographic covariates are controlled, of the IPIs that began with a live birth, those <6 months in duration were associated with a 7.5-fold increase in the odds of an induced abortion (95% CI 6.0-9.4), a 3.3-fold increase in the odds of a miscarriage (95% CI 2.8-3.9), and a 1.6-fold increase in the odds of a stillbirth (95% CI 1.2-2.1) compared with 27-to 50-month IPIs. IPIs of 6-14 months were associated with increased odds of induced abortion (2.0, 95% CI 1.5-2.6). IPIs ‡ 75 months were associated with increased odds of all three types of non-live-birth (NLB) outcomes but were not as risky as very short intervals. IPIs that began with a NLB were generally more likely to end with the same type of NLB.Conclusions Women whose pregnancies are between 15 and 75 months after a preceding pregnancy outcome (regardless of its type) have a lower likelihood of fetal loss than those with shorter or longer IPIs. Those with a preceding NLB outcome deserve special attention in counselling and monitoring.

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Relationships between pregnancy spacing, sex of infants, maternal age, and birth order, and neonatal and post‐neonatal mortality in Bangladesh

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Child survival and its effect on mortality of siblings in Bangladesh

Child survival and its effect on mortality of siblings in Bangladesh

Demographic and Maternal Correlates of Infant and Child Mortality in Bangladesh

Effects of interpregnancy interval and outcome of the preceding pregnancy on pregnancy outcomes in Matlab, Bangladesh

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