Abstract:

Abstract Plaza de la Revolución is the municipality of the lowest fertility in Cuba. The objective of this paper is to compare the reproductive history of two generations of women residents in this municipality. The generation one (mothers) are 62 women born between 1942 and 1950, with ages among 57 and 64 years, that were interviewed between March 2007 and October 2008, in a precedent investigation. The generation two (daughters) is integrated by 74 women born in the period 1957-1968, with ages between 45 and 56 years, interviewees between October 2013 and February 2014. The sample was intentioned selected. The selection approaches were: to choose those of the previous investigation that had daughters that resided in Plaza de la Revolución, with 45 years or more, to be close to the end of the fertile period. Her 74 daughters were interviewed applying the same interview guide that included demographics variables, of reproductive and matrimonial history, as well as related with each pregnancy, product of the conception and born alive. The reproductive history of both generations was characterized by an early age of menarche, of beginning of the sexual relationships and first marriage. The daughters postponed their first descendant’s birth regarding their mothers. The second generation had like average 1,2 less children than their progenitors and they uses more frequently the induced miscarriage and the contraception, to regulate the size of their descendant. The fertility in the adolescence was bigger in the mothers, because contrary to the daughters, they didn’t use contraception before the first gestation; neither interrupted pregnancy voluntarily. None mother had her first son with 30 years or more and 15% of the daughters did it, being evidenced generation changes in the calendar of the fertility.

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