آسان مڈوائفری

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