Midwifery and Womens Health

Postnatal Care

Postnatal care can likewise incorporate evaluation and guiding gave to the mother before releasing subsequent to conceiving an offspring in a health facility, and in addition, later contacts amid home visits by community health worker or postnatal visits to a health facility. Comprehensively, the significant components of postnatal care include:

•             counseling and wellbeing training on acknowledgment of peril signs and suitable care-chasing           (for both mother and infant)

•             counseling and wellbeing training on routine care practices, for example, select breastfeeding and thermal care practice

•             dispensing and related advising for routine preventive mediations, (for example, chlorhexidine for cord stump care and postnatal iron supplementation)

•             assessment and case-administration and referral for any distinguished intricacies or hazard conditions Postnatal care