Sentences with phrase «mothers during the postnatal period»

I also provide compassionate support to new mothers during the postnatal period.

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This includes essential care during childbirth and in the postnatal period for every mother and baby, including antenatal steroid injections (given to pregnant women at risk of preterm labour to strengthen the babies» lungs), kangaroo mother care (when the baby is carried by the mother with skin - to - skin contact and frequent breastfeeding), and antibiotics to treat newborn infections.

This range of signature sheets and accompanying conversations guidance is designed to support staff who are talking to mothers about feeding and caring for their baby, both during pregnancy and in the postnatal period.

Recommendations that health professionals should educate all key family members, both during pregnancy and in the postnatal period, on the benefits of breast milk, and on how to encourage and support mothers in the early weeks of breastfeeding have already been made [55, 56].

The study followed an action research cycle to design, implement and evaluate an educational resource for first - time mothers during the immediate postnatal period.

In view of the high worldwide prevalence of (childhood) obesity and associated metabolic problems, this close link between maternal and child metabolic health and the resulting vicious cycle are very relevant.33 34 Because of the deleterious impact of GDM and lifestyle during pregnancy on the health of the mother and her offspring, it is crucial to intervene during the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal period.

This suggests that the altered frontal functional connectivity in infants born to mothers whose depressive symptomatology increases in the early postnatal period compared to that during pregnancy may reflect a neural basis for the familial transmission of phenotypes associated with mood disorders, particularly in girls.