Safe Motherhood

Safe motherhood is a process of protecting the mother from having complicated pregnancy and the problem of childbirth. A mother dies of pregnancy complications in a minute throughout the world. About half a million women die each year of pregnancy related cases in the world. This condition is found worse in many parts of the developing countries. Therefore, it is aimed to reduce the maternal mortality by one forth by 2015. To achieve this goal, the health of mothers is to be made safe. If we take care of our mothers in every respect of the complications, we can easily fulfil the above mentioned aims. Therefore, safe motherhood has become a part of reproductive health and rights.

The safe motherhood programmes should be conducted in an integrated approach with primary health care service, which are to be provided to all the population especially to the most vulnerable and under-served groups. While providing service to safe motherhood, the following should be emphasized.

•      Adolescent females and males must be provided with information, education and counselling to help them delay early marriage and unions, premature sexual activity and the first pregnancy.
•      A special programme should be implemented to address the nutritional needs of women of child-bearing age especially those who are pregnant or breast feeding.
•      Prenatal care and counselling with special emphasis on high risk pregnancies and prevention of STDs and AIDs should be given.
•      All the birth should be assisted by trained persons, preferably nurses and midwives but at least by trained birth attendants.
•    Mothers and other related family members should be provided with adequate knowledge regarding family planning to make a happy family.

So it is very necessary for the society and the family to give great care and attention so that the complications during pregnancy and after birth of the baby are reduced and the health of the mother and the child is in good condition.

Sleep Well to Reduce Stress

Health is the state of being free from any kind of disease or injury. We often hear people saying "Sound Mind in a Sound Body" and sometimes people quote 'Health is Wealth'. A person ought to be healthy to carry out all his daily activities. An unhealthy person has lots of huddles in his life. There are different criteria to measure how healthy a person is. One of them is the way of having a good-night sleep. Getting a good-night sleep is sometimes easier said than done. People face so much pressure just getting to and from work that winding down at the end of the day can be a significant challenge. Reaching for a bottle of whiskey does not help either because alcohol has long been known to be be the thief of sleep.

Sleep deprivation can often be caused by medical conditions. For example, dipolar disorder is very disruptive on sleep because it causes periods of high activity and laws of depression and that combination is not good for restorative asleep.

People who suffer from constant pain or fibromyalgia also find it very difficult to go to sleep and using sleeping medication over the long term can disrupt normal sleep patterns significantly.

There is an easy solution to this problem. The best step is to get sleep to a level where you can reduce your stress is to readily consult with a medical practitioner that you trust and work systematically through a series of options until you find one that is truly satisfactory.

Fortunately there is a lot of medical researches that have been undertaken to assist in getting people to sleep well and this is worthy of discovery and reading. Take heart from the fact that if you are able to improve your sleep patterns then that could significantly reduce your stress levels.