3.3 Maternal’s experience with CS
Participants’ maternal’s experience with CS was presented in (Table 3) . The majority of the respondents had only one or two CS (46% and 32.6%, respectively). 45.6% of the respondents had their last CS in the age group of 26-30 years old, most of the respondents performed CS at a gestational age of 31-40 weeks (78.9%), 89.8% of the respondents stayed in the hospital for 1-3 days after CS, and 52% needed a recovery period from two weeks to one month. The higher percentage of respondents (75.3%) had their CS in private hospitals, and (44.4%) of respondents had full coverage insurance. Finally, it appears that the majority of the respondents were satisfied with their experience (56.3% were satisfied and 16.5% were strongly satisfied).
Regarding CS complications (Table 4 ), about 29.4% of the respondents had complications after CS. The most common complications were wound pain and inflammation (11.3%), back pain and general weakness (6.4%), flatulence and abdominal pain (4.6%), bleeding (3.9%), headache (2.4%), fever or hypothermia (1.4%), adhesions (1.2%), hypotension or hypertension (1.1%), and constipation (1.1%).