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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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