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Prenatal Courses

“An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure”

Preventive Health Education
EVERY SATURDAY
One month course

From Conception to Delivery
For registration, contact us at +92-21 486-1033/1034, Consulting Clinic 4 (CC-4)
Rs 550 for one month course

 Topic 1 Minor Disorders of Pregnancy & Antenatal Exercises

PHYSICAL CHANGES
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGES
Nausea Vomiting
Urinary Frequency
Breast Tenderness
Nasal Stiffness
Increase Vaginal Discharge
Heart Burn
Ankle Edema
Varicose Vein
Hemorrhoids
Constipation
Backache
Leg cramps
Faintness
Shortness of Breath
Difficulty in sleeping.
Crying Spells
Baby Blues/Postnatal 
Mood Fluctuation
Depression.

Prenatal Exercise
Choosing to introduce a programe of easy exercises into your daily life is a very positive decision. This is particularly so while you are pregnant and have the challenges of carrying your growing baby, giving birth and the postnatal months ahead of you.

Benefits of exercising include:

  • Increasing energy
  • Improving posture
  • Encouraging flexibility and suppleness
  • Good Breathing
  • A Positive pregnancy.

Join child birth classes and learn by demonstration and redemonstration 
Contact us at +92-21 486-1033/1034

Topic 2 Diet During Pregnancy

Worried about what you can and cannot eat during pregnancy? For the latest advice, check out our diet class.

Pregnant women don’t need to eat for two. In the last few months of pregnancy, you should increase your intake by around 200 calories – choose pregnancy power foods.

Contact us at +92-21 486-1033

Breast Feeding

Good News:
Approximately 80-90 per cent of health care workers are “Lactation Management Certified” during education programme.

Parents are counselled for

  • Promotion of breast feeding
  • Motivation of optimum breast feeding practices
  • Management of a problem related to lactation during antenatal and postnatal period.

If you suffer from:

  • Insufficient Milk syndrome?
  • Sore Nipples?
  • Breast Engorgement?

Do not switch to a bottle feeder! Find out why.

Contact us at +92-21 486-1033/1037/1495

Topic 3 Labour & Delivery

Each women wonders about the course of labour and delivery, successful labour and delivery results.

Concern discussed during labour and delivery sessions are listed below:
  • Labour definition
  • Types of labour pains
  • Signs of labour
  • Analgesic during labour
  • Physical preparation for labour
  • Mental Preparation for labour
  • Types of delivery

For a painless delivery, please contact CC-4.

Learn more about epidurals

  • What it is?
  • How it is given?
  • What are its pros and cons?

Family Planning
Through caring, empathetic counseling about family planning, health care providers can make a difference in the lives of women.

The benefits of spacing between children are:
  • Mother’s uterus gets rest
  • Promotion of women's health
  • Optimum breast feeding for child
  • Spacing between children is encouraged

 Contact us at +92-21 486-1033/1034, CC-4

Topic 4 DADs Preparation & danger signals to be notified at once

The birth of a baby marks the completion of pregnancy and the beginning of a new life. It is certainly a time of stress for both parents. Prepare yourself through parenthood classes so you become more effective parents.

 Contact us at +92-21 486-1033/1034, CC-4





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