Description

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The book is a holistic resource toolkit that explores how the father and the mother should take care of the body and adjust their nutrition and life style during pregnancy. It gives hints about what to expect from the medics, the society and the environment. It presents a concept map for a panoramic view of what happens before, during and after pregnancy. It lists health concerns for the mother and baby and gleans information and experiences from the spiritual, socio-cultural, medical, nutritional, psychological, theological horizons of understanding to confer holistic caring on the trio. Of paramount importance in this book are issues of attending faith based clinics in addition to medical clinics. The book finally presents hints the first, second and third trimesters and what to do or expect to do during labour, delivery, during breastfeeding and offers suggestions for postnatal and postpartum care.