Mother and child
Explore mother and child: Malnutrition in children, Pregnancy and antenatal care, After the birth: care and danger signs. Simple health information from AfyaMesh.
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Malnutrition in children
A child not getting enough of what their body needs to grow. It is treatable, and treated early it is treatable at home.
Pregnancy and antenatal care
Antenatal care is the series of checks through a pregnancy that find problems early, when they are still easy to deal with.
After the birth: care and danger signs
The weeks after a birth are when a mother is most likely to become seriously ill, and most of that happens in the first few days. Postnatal care is the set of checks on the mother and the baby through that time. It is the part of maternity care people most often skip, because the baby has arrived and everything feels finished.