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23. Unsafe abortion may be risky for the pregnant woman. It may cause infection,
continuous bleeding, damage in the uterus, unconsciousness and death of the
victim. Therefore, unsafe abortion should be discouraged providing proper health
education.
24. Spontaneous abortion is defined as the unintentional expulsion of an embryo or
foetus before the 24th week of gestation.
25. The intentional termination of pregnancy by using medicine or with the help of
skilled health personnel is called induced abortion.
26. An abortion is referred to as an elective or voluntary abortion when it is preformed
at the request of the woman for non-medical reasons.
27. Maternal health is the health of a woman during pregnancy, childbirth and the
postpartum period.
28. The main objective of maternal and child health care is to improve maternal and
newborn health by raising the level of motivation of health care workers to provide
high quality maternal and newborn care is essential to detect high risk cases of
mother and child and give them special care, to identify complications and prevent
them to educate the mother and to promote, protect and maintain health of both
mother and child.
29. Due to lack of proper and adequate maternal and child health care, many mother
and infant die. The mortality rate of mother and infant can be reduced by proper
maternal and child health care services.
30. In order to raise the standard of health of the people living in a country, we should
improve the condition of maternal and child health care.
31. The pregnancy period of a woman is about 40 weeks or 280 days. This period is
considered as a sensitive and risky period for a woman.

32. In rural areas of Nepal, less care is being paid to pregnant woman due to poverty,
ignorance, lack of proper health eduction and superstitions.
33. She must drink sufficient amount of water so as to avoid constipation.
34. She can have morning or evening walk as well as do normal day to day activities.
However, she should not lift heavy loads and do heavy works in agriculture land.
35. Natal care is during the delivery period.
36. The period of two months after delivery is regarded as maternity period or post
natal period.
37. The baby should be given first milk (yellow milk called colustrum) rather than
throwing it out.
38. The normal weight of baby at the time of birth should be (2.7-3.4) kg and height 50
cm. The baby grows upto 75 cm and its weight increases 3 times within 1 year of age.

39. The act of feeding breast milk to the baby is known as breast feeding.
40. The first milk produced immediately after delivery is yellow in colour which is
called colustrum.

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