reproductive health services for adolescents - Pathfinder International

Module 16/Unit 12
CONTENT
Knowledge/Attitudes/Skills
bathing, changing, playing, positive
social interactions, and participating
in health care decisions.
• Continued access to economic and
educational opportunity.
WHAT ADOLESCENT MOTHERS
NEED
• Information about the importance of
prenatal care and early access to
such services, including trained
providers during delivery.
Training/Learning Methods
(Time Required)
adolescent parents about infant
feeding.
• Remind both groups that they must
be practical and consider only the
information that they could
reasonably give in the short time they
might have, given the other activities
of a busy clinic.
• Allow 15 minutes for the discussion.
• Ask one representative from each
group to summarize the main points
of their discussion.
• Social support during pregnancy.
• Postnatal support and health care for
themselves and their infants.
• Information about the importance of
breastfeeding, immunization,
nutrition, and growth monitoring.
• Encouragement to learn effective
parenting skills, such as feeding,
bathing, changing, playing, positive
social interactions, and making health
care decisions.
• Counseling about modern
contraceptives to delay the next
pregnancy.
• A confidential, private, affordable,
and welcoming service environment.
• Continued access to economic and
educational opportunity.
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