The association between cesarean birth and breastfeeding initiation in Odisha, India: A mother fixed effects analysis

Cesarean births are becoming more common in India, with health implications for both mothers and infants. Between 2005 and 2015, the proportion of cesarean births to total births in India roughly doubled, from 9% to 17%. We analyze Annual Health Survey data from the state of Odisha in eastern India....

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Published in:PloS one 2024-02, Vol.19 (2), p.e0287796-e0287796
Main Authors: Smita, Franz, Nathan, Coffey, Diane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breast Feeding
Cesarean Section
Complications and side effects
Female
Health aspects
Humans
India - epidemiology
Infant
Infants
Medical research
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medicine, Experimental
Mothers
Parturition
Patient outcomes
People and Places
Pregnancy
Research and Analysis Methods
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Summary:Cesarean births are becoming more common in India, with health implications for both mothers and infants. Between 2005 and 2015, the proportion of cesarean births to total births in India roughly doubled, from 9% to 17%. We analyze Annual Health Survey data from the state of Odisha in eastern India. These population-level, longitudinal data on births between 2007 and 2011 allows us to estimate the association between cesarean birth and breastfeeding outcomes using mother fixed effects. Mother fixed effects allow comparisons of siblings born to the same mother who experienced different types of births (vaginal and cesarean). This empirical strategy controls for many potential observable and unobservable confounders in the relationship. Ordinary Least Squares linear probability models without mother fixed effects find that babies born by cesarean in Odisha are about 14 percentage points (p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0287796