Background: Antenatal care (ANC) is very important for pregnant women because it provides information and advice for a healthy pregnancy, safe childbirth, and postnatal recovery, including newborn care, promotion of early, exclusive breastfeeding, and assistance in making a decision on future pregnancies in order to improve pregnancy outcomes. As a result, the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and characteristics that are substantially linked with ANC use during pregnancy among Bangladeshi mothers.

Methods: The information was taken from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, which was conducted in 2017-2018. The analysis included a total of 5012 mothers. ANC use was the outcome of interest. The variables linked with ANC usage were discovered using logistic regression models.

Results: About 51.8 percent of moms initiated fewer than or equal to three ANC visits, while another 48.2 percent commenced more than or equal to four ANC visits. Respondents’ primary and secondary education, respondents’ husbands’ secondary and higher secondary and above education, higher birth order (three or more), an unwanted child at the time of pregnancy, being urban residents, wealth quintiles, told about signs of pregnancy complications, current ages of children (one year and more than two years), age at first birth, respondents from Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Sylhet divisions, blood sample taken during pregnancy,, blood pressure taken during pregnancy, given or bought iron tablet during pregnancy, family planning worker (FW) comes during pregnancy were significantly associated with the number of ANC visits during pregnancy.

Conclusion: Rural location, low household wealth, mothers’ and partners’ lack of education, and undesired pregnancy all have a substantial impact on the number of ANC visits in Bangladesh. We should start an ANC visit for a frequent ANC visit throughout pregnancy as soon as possible. Women with a high birth order, who live in rural areas, and who have a low educational status should be given extra attention in order to increase the frequency of ANC visits and improve the health of themselves and their children.