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ORIGINAL ARTICLESupportive Role of Husband’s in Relation to Child Birthhusband in nuclear family than in joint family size.Income level didn’t affect supportprovided by husband during deliveryperiod. Away from home for employmentfor employment were main causes for notproviding support during pregnancy,delivery & PPP. Accompanying theirwives during ANC visit followed byhelping in HH activities & in bringingextra nutritious food was the majorsupporting activities during pregnancy.Majority of respondents don’t knowrespondents i.e 54.5 % don’t know aboutthe danger signs during pregnancy. Mostof the respondent had taken their wives tohospital when they had danger signsduring pregnancy while 9.5 % go todhami/jhakri& 9.5% do nothing duringsuch conditions. Saving fund followed bymanaging delivery kit for delivery weremain activities for birth preparedness.Discussion:The study was carried out to find outhusband’s involvement in making safepregnancy, delivery & post-partum period.There were all together 142 respondentswere interviewed from Tharu communityin whole VDC. In an attempt to find outthe knowledge, attitude status of husband,describe practices of husband’s support totheir wives and determine factors thataffect husband’s support in making safepregnancy & child birth, data on respectedvariables were collected and analyzed.Most of the respondents were of age group21-30 with similar to that of wives agegroup. 51.4% of the respondent hadHigh number of wives was educated up tosecondary followed by literate category ofeducation. Most of the respondent had lowMajor supporting activities did byrespondents were making transportationfacility available, choosing place ofdelivery presence during delivery period.77.8 % had visited health facility while11.1 % had contact health personnelduring such conditions and 11.1% didnothing. Hospital was main place ofdelivery followed by home delivery i.e27.5 %.Husbands were the main decisionmakers for place of delivery followed byother family members. Wives had only15% decision for place of delivery.Majority had supported by providing extranutritious food, helping in HH work &taking baby for some time during PPP.There was equality in visiting healthfacility & contacting health personnelfollowed by going to dhami/jhakri. While11.1 % did nothing during such condition.level of income which is less than RS5000 per month. Most of the respondentworking as labor followed by agriculture.Joint family was dominant over nuclear.Father in-law followed by husband &mother in law had more decisions onexpenses, which reflects that women haveno control over the expenses and decidingfor their own health issues the study issimilar which was done by EngenderHealth, Men as Partners in reproductiveHealth in Nepal 2 .More than half of respondents had heardabout support to be provided duringpregnancy. Accompany during ANCfollowed by help in HH, bringing extranutritious food during pregnancy were themain support that were known byrespondent during pregnancy. Thisreferred that respondents knew about helpto be provided. Half of respondent hadJournal of Nobel Medical College (2011), Vol. N.1 49