DO YOU KNOW THAT SOME PREGNANT WOMEN DO NOT GO FOR ANTENATAL INSTEAD THEY GO FOR WHAT THEY CALL MASSAGE

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Most of the birth defects and congenital abnormalities (children born with some abnormalities) seen in most children are caused by the mother’s carelessness during pregnancy. Women learn a lot from going to the hospital and registering for antenatal during pregnancy.  In the antenatal classes they attend, the health personnel teach them the dos and don’ts in pregnancy, things to eat and what not to eat, medications to take and the ones they are not supposed to take. Problems are detected early and solutions given before complications arise etc.
But for some women, once they notice that they are pregnant, the first thing that comes to their mind is to look for a massage home so they call it. And this massage home or whatever it is called, is a house where a non-medical personnel in the form of traditional birth attendants (Who call themselves midwives or traditional doctors) press and fumble with  this women’s belly, and say all sorts of things as regards to the position of the baby, making this women believe them.
A woman who was 6 months pregnant was brought to the hospital bleeding heavily, and crying of pain all over her body, said she went for massage as usual in her midwives place, meanwhile before that massage, her husband had asked her to go for a scan which she did and the scan said her baby is in transverse position (Means the baby is not well positioned), instead of visiting the hospital she went straight to her so called midwife who told her she can turn the baby to good position with massage and that she should not bother. The woman started massaging her for almost one hour at a point, blood started coming from her private part and was increasing, the woman try to control it but could not, all she did was to call a taxi to carry the pregnant woman to any hospital and she ran away, no one saw her again she even switched off her phone so that no one could reach her.
I visited a friend and over heard her neighbor who is just a market woman, advising a pregnant woman to visit a massage home to correct the position of her baby. That the appearance of the varicose vein (those veins that look twisted like zigzag usually found on women’s laps or behind the knee cap) on her laps means that the baby is no longer on the belly, that it has moved to her laps (incredible how is that possible bikonu?) that she should go to a massage home for the so called midwife to massage the baby back to belly. That it was how she took care of all her children.  We tried to intervene and advise them but the woman shunned us and told us that massage worked for her and nothing else.
FROM THE TABLE OF GOOD NURSE
·         Our women! Registering for antenatal when pregnant is the key to successful delivery of a healthy child. Running far away from these massage homes is the beginning of wisdom.
·         Prevention is cheaper than cure, and if you think that registering for antenatal is expensive, it is cheaper in government hospitals please.
·         Avoid massage during pregnancy so that your days as a pregnant woman may be healthy. (photo credit: www.google.com) 
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