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Yes, maternal health during and after pregnancy is one of those most important issues one should be worried about. But sadly not only in India, even modern countries doesn’t care about it much. As it’s still a belief that motherhood is women’s duty and they just leave it like some dying soldier in war. First of all nobody asked her about her choice, nobody felt it necessary to at least make sure if she is healthy enough to bear a child now or not. There’s a total lack of awareness. Though in urban areas, women can have doctors opinion frequently, in rural areas, nobody cares about maternal health at all. Everyone think just how their mother had given birth, their wife is gonna do same too. Lack of awareness,using unclean clothes, not having a regular health check up from an expert is leading to complications during pregnancy and result in death.
The most common causes of maternal death is high blood pressure during pregnancy, excessive blood loss, infection, obstructed labor, including some indirect cause like anemia, heart disease.
Though most of the diseases are preventable with help of medical experts, but lack of awareness, not having a good transportation skill, scarcity of health officials in local area can lead those disease to cause of death for not only mother but children too.
If we talk about maternal health after pregnancy, it’s seen in not only rural but also in urban areas too, that a woman, advised strictly to be in bed, is doing or forced to do household chores as it’s a woman work and specially for the daughter-in-law, despite of being aware about her health conditions.
So it should be requested to government to take any necessary steps to prevent those stigmas going on and on. There’s a lot of investment plans for health of women ( e. G: Amiri and Ulf G 13) to secure any maternal health. Also there should be arrangements for free health check up for those who are suffering from poverty, health officials to give advice on maternal health as WHO already tested positive about when a woman has gained access to family planning and skilled birth attendance with back up emergency obstetric care , the global maternal mortality have fallen about 44 percent.
And to the family having their would be mothers, there’s no most critical time for a woman’s body than during pregnancy. So it’s your duty to take care about her eating, daily exercise habits, health issues, hygiene during and even after child birth. Be with her.