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Mothers should allow the baby to breastfeed whenever s/he wants to. Nutrition Education After six months of age the baby should be weaned from the breast. Weaning is the process by which the infant gradually becomes accustomed to the full adult diet. Weaning begins when the child is introduced to foods other than breastmilk and is completed when breastfeeding is stopped and the child is fully accustomed to the family diet. Box 4.3.3 lists pieces of advice on feeding the weaning child. Box 4.3.3: Advice on feeding the weaning child 1. The child is growing rapidly so he needs extra protein-rich and high energy foods 2. The child needs a variety of foods 3. The child has few teeth, so he requires soft food 4. The child has a relatively small stomach and therefore needs more frequent meals than adults 5. The child needs clean and well-cooked foods 6. The child’s growth and development should be closely monitored 7. The child should have love, affection and personal attention both for his mental and psychological development. Unit summary In this Unit we discussed the importance of staying healthy and how to bring this about. We discussed how the environment around us can make us sick and we talked about practical ways of keeping the environment clean. We discussed how some of the major causes of preventable ill-health in our communities such as malaria, diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection can affect farm or office work. We saw how the volunteer has an important duty to assist his or her community to prevent diseases through effective health promotion, promotion of healthy diets and other disease prevention activities. 203
Module 4 The work of Community Health Volunteers Unit 4 Reproductive and Child Health 204 Introduction Every community seeks to prevent premature deaths among its people. Accordingly, every community has a duty to identify people among them who are at higher risk of dying and plan programs to reduce their deaths. In Ghana, mothers and children are at much higher risk of dying than other members of the population. Consequently, the government has introduced special programs to reduce deaths of mothers and children. These programmes are collectively called reproductive and child health programmes. In this unit we shall discuss some of the methods, such as family planning and immunisation, that have been introduced to improve the health of mothers and children. Unit Objectives Unit Topics By the end of this unit participants will be able to: 1. Demonstrate the use of family planning methods 2. Explain the importance of immunisation to the health of a child 3. Describe the services that are available to improve the health of mothers and children Key words and Phrases family, planning, reproductive, immunisation Topic 1 Family Planning Methods Methods of Family Planning 1. Family planning methods 2. Expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) 3. Reproductive health services Family planning is a means by which couples determine the number of children they want to have and when to have them. This can be achieved by means of family planning methods or contraception. Family planning is having the number of children you want when you want them. Different people have different reasons for wanting to limit the size of their family. Some may decide to delay having any children until they have worked and saved enough so that they can afford to care for them well. Others may decide that a small number of children is enough, and they never want more. Yet, others may want to space their children several years apart, so that both the children and their mother will be healthier. Some parents may feel they are too old to have more children. Whatever reasons people cite for adopting
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