Table 2 Services offered by the community midwives
Period | Services offered |
|---|---|
Antenatal | Dissemination of key messages on danger signs in pregnancy, birth planning and emergency preparedness to support safe pregnancy and delivery of a healthy newborn and early childhood care; monitoring and assessment of pregnancy through focused antenatal care (FANC) model; intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnant women (IPT); tetanus toxoid vaccination; referral for antenatal profile; counselling and testing for HIV among pregnant womena |
Childbirth | Childbirth care in uncomplicated labour and delivery (Essential Obstetric Care); provision of EmONC signal functionsb; stabilizing women and/or their newborns who have complications prior to referral; |
Newborn | Provision of essential newborn care – warmth, resuscitation, early initiation of breast feeding, nutritional counselling & hygiene |
Postnatal | Targeted health education/information on danger signs, early detection and treatment of problems, care of breasts, advise on caring for the newborn; immunizations as per the Kenya Expanded Program on Immunization schedule, counselling and testing for HIV among the pregnant and postnatal mothers and provision of family planning counselling and services |
Family planning | Provision of family planning counselling and methods – pills, injectables, implants and intra-uterine contraceptive devices |