IN RESPONSE TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR THE BEST PLACE TO DELIVER THEIR BABY
• The best place for women to deliver is a centre with comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities/personnel. This is a health facility where emergency surgery like caesarean section can be done when needed. This is a facility with drugs, consumables, equipment and personnel to take care of complications that can arise during pregnancy and labour. Women should be helped to access such facilities by ensuring they get to such centres when necessary providing money for antenatal care and procedures that may need to be done;
Untrained or unskilled child birth attendants are dangerous. They can convert a normal labour to an abnormal labour. Some women being delivered by them can mean death or secondary infertility. Some of them do not engage infection prevention methods of delivery and so can transfer germs from themselves and their environment into the laboring women. They do not wear sterile gloves and masks that protect women from germs;
• Awareness of pregnancy risks by men is important to ensure the safe delivery of their wives. Men will act decisively and quickly to take their women to the care of skilled personnel working in a centre with comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities when such women have pregnancy risks which can take the lives of such women and/or their babies or can cause serious harm to them:
The following are such pregnancy risk factors
• Bleeding before labour
• Premature labour
• Hypertension
• Diabetes mellitus (abnormally high blood sugar level)
• Anaemia (lack of blood)
• Women under 15 or over 35 at their first pregnancies
• Short stature
• Multiple pregnancy
• Abnormal presentation and positioning of baby
• Fibroid in pregnancy
• Breaking of the bag of waters before labour
• Greenish staining of liquor (water surrounding the baby)
• Fever
• Severe bleeding following previous birth.
• The best place for women to deliver is a centre with comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities/personnel. This is a health facility where emergency surgery like caesarean section can be done when needed. This is a facility with drugs, consumables, equipment and personnel to take care of complications that can arise during pregnancy and labour. Women should be helped to access such facilities by ensuring they get to such centres when necessary providing money for antenatal care and procedures that may need to be done;
Untrained or unskilled child birth attendants are dangerous. They can convert a normal labour to an abnormal labour. Some women being delivered by them can mean death or secondary infertility. Some of them do not engage infection prevention methods of delivery and so can transfer germs from themselves and their environment into the laboring women. They do not wear sterile gloves and masks that protect women from germs;
• Awareness of pregnancy risks by men is important to ensure the safe delivery of their wives. Men will act decisively and quickly to take their women to the care of skilled personnel working in a centre with comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities when such women have pregnancy risks which can take the lives of such women and/or their babies or can cause serious harm to them:
The following are such pregnancy risk factors
• Bleeding before labour
• Premature labour
• Hypertension
• Diabetes mellitus (abnormally high blood sugar level)
• Anaemia (lack of blood)
• Women under 15 or over 35 at their first pregnancies
• Short stature
• Multiple pregnancy
• Abnormal presentation and positioning of baby
• Fibroid in pregnancy
• Breaking of the bag of waters before labour
• Greenish staining of liquor (water surrounding the baby)
• Fever
• Severe bleeding following previous birth.
This is why we at safe motherhood do our best to ensure that all that is needed for safe delivery of all women is available in all of our facilities and we are always open to accept you.
At No. 1 Obudu Str. Mile 2 Port Harcourt, or No. 3 Trinity Close Mini Woji, Woji Port-Harcourt.
At No. 1 Obudu Str. Mile 2 Port Harcourt, or No. 3 Trinity Close Mini Woji, Woji Port-Harcourt.
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