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آسان مڈوائفری

آسان مڈوائفری

Paperback

Medical ReferenceWomen's Health

ISBN10: 094236404X
ISBN13: 9780942364040
Publisher: Hesperian Health Guides
Published: Apr 4 2006
Pages: 546
Weight: 2.08
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.25 Depth: 9.75
Language: Urdu

A Book for Midwives covers the essentials of care before, during, and after birth. This illustrated guide is a vital resource for midwives, birth attendants, and families to support healthier pregnancies and safer births. Inside, you'll find information on:

  • staying healthy during pregnancy - eating well when there is limited access to food, understanding changes to the body, and preventing and treating malaria and HIV during pregnancy
  • having safer labors and births - cleaning and sterilizing tools to prevent infection, recognizing warning signs during labor, handling complicated deliveries like breech births or twins, and preventing and treating postpartum hemorrhage
  • successful breastfeeding - helpful suggestions, treating cracked nipples and painful abscesses in the breast, and what to do when the mother works outside the home
  • homemade tools and teaching materials - instructions for low-cost timers, stethoscopes, and scales, and patterns for simple teaching models that can be made from paper or cloth
  • family planning and sexual health - birth control methods, IUD insertion and removal, physical and emotional care for miscarriage, safe methods of abortion, performing pelvic exams, and treatment of HIV and other STIs
  • preventing and treating obstetric emergencies as well as advanced topics like administering fluids intravenously, inserting a catheter, and sewing a tear or episiotomy

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