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What Is Postnatal Care and Counselling?

Postnatal Care

Postnatal care and counselling involve taking care of a mother after delivery. They help in the recovery process, addressing both physical and emotional needs. Postnatal care focuses on checking the mother's health, recovery, and well-being. Counselling provides emotional support, advice on baby care, and guidance on health practices. This phase is crucial as the mother's body undergoes many changes and needs proper care.

Healthcare givers help in postpartum symptom management as well as facilitating lactation or stabilization of mothers' emotions during the period postdelivery.

Post-natal Care and Counseling

Types of Postnatal Care and Counselling

Types

There are different types of postnatal care and counselling to meet various needs, which are:

  • Baby Care Guidance: Many mothers are unfamiliar with newborn care. This counselling provides advice on feeding, bathing, and safe sleeping practices for the baby.
  • Physical Fitness and Exercise: Mothers are guided on when and how to begin light exercises to regain their strength. Exercise helps in improving posture, energy, and mental well-being.
  • Lactation Support: Breastfeeding can be a daunting task for new mothers. Lactation support helps them understand breastfeeding techniques, latch issues, and how to increase milk supply.
  • Nutrition Counselling: Proper nutrition is important for a mother’s recovery and breastfeeding. Counsellors provide diet plans rich in vitamins, proteins, and minerals to help mothers regain strength.
  • Emotional Support and Therapy: Postnatal depression and anxiety can result in many fresh mothers. Emotional counselling helps mothers deal with these mental health challenges. It also provides a safe space to discuss fears and concerns.
  • Physical Recovery Facilitation: Comprises routine observation of the healing of the new mother. There is concern related to uterine contractions, vaginal bleeding or discharge, among others, but especially with respect to wound repair in case there was a CS.
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Why is Postnatal Care Important?

Importance

Postnatal care is essential for a mother’s complete recovery. Here are some reasons why:

  • Strength and Energy Restoration: Well-care and nutritious feeding restore muscle strength and body strength after labour.
  • Building Confidence: With guidance, new mothers feel more confident and capable of managing their recovery and baby care.
  • Newborn Care: Mothers are taught important newborn care practices. This helps reduce risks such as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and malnutrition.
  • Emotional Well-being: Most mothers are diagnosed with "baby blues" or postpartum depression. Counselling calms them down, and they gain better mental health.
  • Breastfeeding Success: Adequate postnatal support ensures that breastfeeding is successful. It helps mothers deal with challenges such as low milk production or incorrect latching.
  • Prevention of Health Complications: Mothers are vulnerable to infections, excessive bleeding, and postpartum disorders. It is also expected that through regular check-ups, all these complications will be detected and treated in good time.

Postnatal Treatment

Treatment

Postnatal treatment differs with the mother's condition. A few common treatments include:

  • Pain Control: Mothers who are in pain, especially after a C-section, get the right kind of pain relief medication.
  • Emotional Counseling: There is psychological counselling for mothers who need emotional support in handling stress during the postpartum period.
  • Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy: Several mothers suffer from pelvic floor weakness, leading to incontinence. Their muscles can be toned through exercises or physiotherapy.
    • >Wound Care: C-section incisions or tears from vaginal delivery need proper care. Treatments may include cleaning the wound, applying ointments, and stitching if necessary.
  • Follow-up Medical Checks: Infection, healing well, and any complications are assessed by healthcare providers. Blood pressure, uterus size, and vaginal discharge are also checked.
  • Nutritional Supplements: The mother may require supplements that include calcium and iron, among others, multivitamins. These will restore the nutrients lost through pregnancy and delivery.
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Benefits of Postnatal Care and Counselling

Benefits

There are many benefits of postnatal care and counselling. Some of these are:

  • Faster Recovery: Medical guidance for mothers allows quicker recovery from physiological childbirth strains.
  • Education and Empowerment: Mothers acquire know-how about new babies and recovery to enable them to decide wisely.
  • Mental Development: Emotional support prevents them from experiencing cases of depression and anxiety as well as mood swings cases.
  • Lower Risk of Health Issues: Antenatal checking reduces the danger of infection among mothers, some blood clots, and most postnatal complications.
  • Increasing Chances for Breastfeeding: Lactation support prepares mothers adequately for breastfeeding. It solves many common problems that can hinder feeding.
  • Improved Baby Bonding: Mothers tend to bond well with their newborns when given proper care. This bonding positively impacts the health of both mother and baby.
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Frequently Asked Questions?

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These are infection, hemorrhage, depression, and difficulties in breastfeeding.

It lasts around six weeks; however, in some cases, it can go up to the desired time.

Proper nutrition helps mothers regain energy, improves milk supply, and promotes faster healing.

Keep in close touch with family and friends, rest adequately, and emotionally seek support as required.

Yes, but only light exercises like walking or stretching should be done after consulting with a doctor.

Yes, but only light exercises like walking or stretching should be done after consulting with a doctor.
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