Background: In Ethiopia the average fertility rate in rural areas is about 6 children per woman, while it is 2.4
children per woman in urban areas. It is with this concept in mind that the investigators of this study wanted to
correlate the promotion of after-child-birth-use of family planning and desire to limit childbearing in Ethiopia.
Postpartum amenorrhea signifies the interval between childbirth and the return of menstruation.
Objectives: The specific objective is to examine the desire to limit family size, along with cases of sterilized, fecund,
postpartum amenorrhoea, declared in-fecund and menopausal women within the study area.
Methods: The study is based on the analysis of secondary data obtained from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic
and Health Survey (EDHS). This study is concentrated on couples because we need to know more about married
people’s desire to limit their family size. The bivariate, ANOVA, and multivariate analyses were used to analyse the
association.
Results: The total number of respondents was 6,745 (78.3% rural and 21.7% urban), with 93.6% of them being
currently married and 6.4% of them living with a partner. The mean duration of amenorrhea among women who
gave birth in the five years preceding the survey is 16 months. Women with equal numbers of sons and daughters
were found to be 75.4% (OR = 0.25) less likely to desire more children, compared to women with more sons than
daughters.
Conclusion: Achievable resolutions include increasing females’ ages at marriage, avoiding unwanted teenage
pregnancies, completely eradicating home delivery, and inspiring young people to use modern methods of family
planning to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5.