Each Issaquah Doula typically spends upwards of 18 hours with each of their clients with prenatal and
postnatal visits including the duration of the birth.
Not exact matches
Virtually all GPs participate in the scheme and are paid directly by the HSE for a set number of antenatal and
postnatal visits; this
includes your first
visit to confirm your pregnancy.
Other community - based intervention packages that may reduce neonatal mortality
include home - based neonatal care and treatment and education of mothers and antenatal and
postnatal visits (low - certainty evidence).
Intervention: package
including use of a new continuum of care card, continuum of care orientation for health workers, 24 - hour health facility retention of mothers and newborns after delivery, and
postnatal care by home
visits.
24 randomised and 2 non-randomised trials of intervention packages,
including mainly: building community - support or women's groups (9 studies), community mobilisation and antenatal and
postnatal home visitation (7 studies), community mobilisation and home - based neonatal treatment (1 study), training traditional birth attendants who made antenatal and intrapartum home
visits (2 studies), home - based neonatal care and treatment (2 studies), and education of mothers and antenatal and
postnatal visitation (2 studies)
The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative UK report in 2016 affirmed the borough's actions as it recommends in Indicator 6 (Community - based support) that «commissioners ensure that there is a range of
postnatal services that
include both health professional and voluntary - sector breastfeeding support to meet local needs and provide clear access to specialist support» and that they «maintain the full range of health
visiting services, and maintain health
visiting as a universal service».
At our hospital, this
included optional antenatal classes, which did address infant feeding, and
postnatal visits by a lactation consultant should any problems with breast feeding arise.
The package
includes: 1) use of a new continuum of care card, 2) continuum of care orientation for health workers, 3) 24 - h health facility retention of mothers and newborns after delivery, and 4)
postnatal care by home
visits.
Postnatal care for mothers and babies
includes, for example, keeping them in the facility for 24 hours before discharge or
visiting them as soon as possible after a home delivery; repeated assessments of mother and newborn babies allows to identify problems early and manage them promptly.
Postnatal home
visiting programme to the child's second birthday
including: the MECSH structured programme; well - child checks; proactive (rather than needs - based) preventive and anticipatory primary healthcare and health education; and standardised focus modules aligned with primary outcomes;
Extensive data were collected on mothers» demographic characteristics, health history,
including maternal history of asthma, prenatal and
postnatal maternal psychological distress (anxiety, depression or stress), maternal social support (specifically the extent of partner / spouse support) and children's birth and health outcomes
including breastfeeding status (at 3 months) from the APrON surveys completed at prenatal or
postnatal clinic
visits or sent in by mail.