Gynecology, Obstetrics and Womens Health

Pre and Post-partum care

Care is word that is related to all stages of conceiving a child. A woman has to take care of only herself before delivery and she has to care of herself as well as her baby after delivery.  Nine months of delivery can be divided into three stages and that is Intra-partum care, pre-partum care, and postpartum care. Prenatal care helps to decrease risks during pregnancy and increases the chance of a safe and healthy delivery.    This makes it easy to find complications in pregnancy like eclampsia, miscarriages, preclampsia and bleeding etc. Immunization of the mother is of importance as this protects the foetus from deadly diseases. After conceiving and leading to the delivery of the baby, the body of the mother undergo changes. Post-partum care is primarily important to the newly born baby and also for the mother. Postpartum care involves getting proper rest, nutrition, and vaginal care Next comes in line protection of the new born from external infections and providing the baby with all the vaccinations at regular time intervals.