Impact of health care of lactating mothers on: their health, adequacy of lactation, and the health status of their infants Part [1] Effect of health care of mothers on the health of their infants

ABSTRACT

This work aimed at providing a comprehensive postnatal care to lactating mothers in Abbis [2] village for a period of 6 months and evaluating the impact of this care on their health and the health status of their infants. This was done through a longitudinal study on 2 purposive samples each including 50 breast-feeding mothers. A comprehensive postnatal care [nutritional,medical, educational and dental care] was provided to the experimental group while the mothers of the control group were given the ordinary care of the rural health center. The results showed that during the post-neonatal period infants of the experimental group showed lower incidence of all diseases than infants of the control group. More than 80% of infants of the experimental group received the primary doses of vaccination due for their ages corresponding to 38% only of infants of the control group. Growth and development of experimental group was better than that of the control group but the difference was not statistically significant