This study examines associations between fertility intentions and maternal health behaviours during and after pregnancy among a nationally representative sample of 3,442 women from India. Two waves of data (2005, 2012) from the India Human Development Survey were analyzed to investigate the influence of unwanted births on women’s use of antenatal care, timely postnatal care, and the delivery setting using binary and ordered logistic regression, partial proportional odds models, and propensity score weighting. Fifty-eight per cent of sample births were unwanted. Regression results show that, net of maternal and household characteristics, women with unwanted births were less likely to obtain any antenatal care and had fewer antenatal tests performed. Unwantedness was also associated with a lower likelihood of delivering in an institutional setting and of obtaining timely postnatal care. The relationships between unwantedness and antenatal care, postnatal care, and delivery setting were robust to models accounting for propensity weighting.

中文翻译：

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怀孕期间和怀孕后的生育意愿和孕产妇健康行为。

本研究以具有全国代表性的 3,442 名印度女性为样本，探讨了生育意愿与怀孕期间和怀孕后孕产妇健康行为之间的关联。对印度人类发展调查的两波数据（2005 年和 2012 年）进行了分析，以使用二元和有序逻辑回归、部分比例优势模型来调查意外生育对妇女使用产前护理、及时产后护理和分娩环境的影响和倾向得分加权。百分之五十八的样本出生是意外出生。回归结果显示，扣除母亲和家庭特征后，意外生育的妇女获得产前护理的可能性较小，且进行的产前检查也较少。不受欢迎还与在机构环境中分娩和获得及时产后护理的可能性较低有关。对于考虑倾向权重的模型来说，不想要的事物与产前护理、产后护理和分娩环境之间的关系是稳健的。