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Recommendations
The Project should:
1. Inform men about the importance of ANC, safe
delivery and PNC in improving health and saving lives
of mothers and newborns and advocate for acquiring
these services.
2. Work to change the custom that seeking ANC is
shameful and strengthen knowledge of mothers and
families (especially rural) about the benefits of ANC
and the minimum visits that should be made to a health
care provider for check up even if the pregnancy is
perceived to be progressing normally.
3. Build on the knowledge of the mothers that there is
direct relationship between the food intake of mother
and the weight of the newborn and train health care
providers to conduct nutrition counseling based on
the National Nutrition Curriculum prepared by the
Pakistan Child Survival Project in 1990s.
4. Promote intake of iron and other micronutrients.
5. Educate mothers and families about the impact of
prolong work hours without rest on the weight of the
fetus and encourage husbands and mother-in-laws to
find ways for decreasing workload of their pregnant
wives/daughter-in-laws.
6. Advise mothers and families about the importance
of tetanus toxoid injections during pregnancy and
overcome the misperception that it has long term
contraceptive effect.
7. Inform mothers, families and daiyan about LBW and its
consequences, and they should be encouraged to get
the newborn immediately weighed after the delivery
by LHWs. (LHWs may require refresher training for
weighing the newborns).
8. Work to increase acceptance of LHWs in the
community and propagate their profession as a
respectable and beneficial service for women, children
and families.
9. Support LHWs through innovative methods to
increase their mobility in communities and gain access
to household.
10. Motivate LHWs to perform their duties regularly and
work to remove barriers in their acceptability in the
community
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