A client/family centered maternity care study on madam Madi Mariama

Abstract

The client and family centered maternity care study is a systematic midwifery care rendered to the expectant mother and her family base on the understanding of the client as a special individual with special needs and peculiar problem during pregnancy, labour and puerperium due to the fact that it is the dream of every pregnant woman to give birth to a healthy baby without any complications and abnormalities to both the mother and the baby. The study entails all aspect of the pregnant woman‘s life been it physical, mental, social and psychological wellbeing. The care is carried out within the family and the community she finds herself. The motive of this study is to prepare the pregnant woman to face labour, puerperium, initiation of breastfeeding and continuation of subsequent baby care. In other to achieve this aim, there was the need to involve the husband, friends, close relatives and the community she finds herself. It involves all the care given to a particular client and her family from the first day of contact during antenatal through labour up to one week postnatal to the mother and baby. The client and family centered maternity care study is centered on Madam Madi Mariama, a 25year old pregnant woman with obstetric history of gravida 2 para 1 alive (G2P1) during the period of pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The interaction with the client started on the 15 th of August, 2023 at Pentecost Health Centre in the Ahafo Region, during her 38 weeks gestation when she came for her antenatal visit, upon glancing through her maternal health records book, she falls within the criteria needed for the study, familiarity was built between myself and madam Mariama rapport was established and permission was sought from madam Mariama to be used for the study, she gladly agreed and we exchanged contacts. She was thanked for accepting the request and availing herself to be used for the study