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ANTENATAL CARE


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What is antenatal care?
Antenatal care is a process whereby you receive professional care from healthcare practitioners during your pregnancy.  You will be offered a series of appointments with a midwife, or sometimes with a doctor who specializes in pregnancy and birth (an obstetrician). They will check that you and your baby are well, give you useful information to help you have a healthy pregnancy (including health eating and exercise advice) and answer any questions you may have.

 
Pregnancy-related deaths and diseases remain noticeably high. Accordingly to the statistics being given by the World Health Organization (W.H.O), an estimated 303,000 women died from pregnancy-related causes, 2.7million babies died during the first 28 days of life and 2.6million babies were stillborn in 2015. While substantial progress has been made over the past two decades, increased access to, and use of, higher-quality health care during pregnancy and childbirth can prevent many of these deaths and diseases, as well as improve women and adolescent girls’ experience of pregnancy and childbirth. 
Period to commence antenatal care
It is best to see your midwife or doctor as early as possible to obtain the information you need to have a healthy pregnancy, and because some tests, such as screening for sickle cell and thalassemia should be done before you are ten (10) weeks pregnant. The earlier a pregnancy is assessed is best for mother and baby. This is especially true if it’s your first pregnancy or you have other health conditions.
Advantages of antenatal care
Prevention of problems for mothers and babies depends on an operational continuation of care with accessible, high quality care before and during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. It also depends on the support available to help pregnant women reach services, particularly when complications occur.
The antenatal care is essentially to prepare for birth and parenthood by offering the following services:-
  •           Identification and surveillance of the pregnant woman and her expected child;
  •    Recognition and management of pregnancy-related complications, particularly preeclampsia;
  •    Recognition and treatment of underlying or concurrent illness;
  •    Screening for conditions and diseases such as anaemia, STIs (particularly syphilis), HIV infection, mental health problems, and/or symptoms of stress or domestic violence; 
  •    Preventive measures, including tetanus toxoid immunization, de-worming, iron and folic acid, intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp), insecticide treated bednets (ITN);
  •   Advice and support to the woman and her family for developing healthy home behaviors and a birth and emergency preparedness plan to; 
  •   Increase awareness of maternal and newborn health needs and self-care during pregnancy and the postnatal period, including the need for social support during and after pregnancy; 
  •    Support care seeking behavior, including recognition of danger signs for the woman and the newborn; 
  •    As well as transport and funding plans in case of emergencies; 
  •    Help the pregnant woman and her partner prepare emotionally and physically for birth and care of their baby, particularly preparing for early and exclusive breastfeeding and essential newborn care and considering the role of a supportive companion  at birth; 
  •    Promote postnatal family planning/birth spacing.

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