Sentences with phrase «care during the prenatal period»

Therefore, it is essential to provide proper care during the prenatal period.

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At a birth center, you see the same faces at every prenatal appointment and really get to know your health care providers — the same providers who will be with you during labor, delivery, and the immediate postpartum period.

According to Wikipedia, «A doula is an experienced, non-medical assistant who provides physical, emotional and informed choice support in prenatal care, during childbirth and during the postpartum period.»

From a policy perspective, it would be useful to consider requiring health care providers to deliver comprehensive lactation education during the prenatal and early postnatal period.

The primary role of a prenatal nurse is to provide care for patients during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

Objectives: provide information necessary to promote breastfeeding, assess and evaluate factors that influence breastfeeding rates, and provide care and education during the preconception, prenatal, and postpartum periods aimed at facilitating a successful breastfeeding experience for mothers.

An increased risk of physical and emotional / behavioural problems has consistently been observed in the offspring of mothers suffering from depression in the perinatal period.9, 10 Probably, complex interactions between several pathways may explain this phenomenon, including biological mechanisms (eg, fetal exposure to maternal stress hormones), behavioural and emotional features (eg, poorer prenatal care and attachment style of depressed mothers) and genetic predisposition transmitted to the offspring.10 In addition to depression during pregnancy and postpartum, exposure to ADs is another major concern.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.

During a 2 - year period, from February 2000 to November 2001, we consecutively recruited women who were receiving prenatal care at a consortium of public health centers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.