Gynecology and Obstetrics Pathology

Pre and Post partum care

‘Care’ is word that is related to all stages of conceiving a child. Before delivery, a women has to take care of only  herself and after delivery she has to care of herself as well as her baby.  Nine months of delivery can be divided into three stages and that is pre-partum care, Intra-partum care and postpartum care. In the initial stages that is the pre-partum the expecting mother for the various pathology and radiological assessments in order to keep a constant vigil on the development of the foetus in her womb. This makes it easy to find complications in pregnancy like preclampsia, eclampsia, miscarriages, bleeding etc. Immunization of the mother is of core importance as this protects the foetus from many deadly diseases. After conceiving and leading upto the delivery of the baby, the body of the mother undergo changes and so does her psychological state of mind. Post partum care is primarily important to the newly born baby as well as the mother. Breastfeeding is of the most important key parameter postpartum care. Next comes in line protection of the new born from external infections and providing the baby with all the vaccinations at regular time intervals. Postpartum depression, peri-partum cardiomyopathy, urinary  incontinence, puerperal fever are the other complications which come in after the delivery of the baby.