• Bettercare
  • Mother and Baby Care for Community Health Workers
← Menu

We have taken every care to ensure that drug dosages and related medical advice in this book are accurate. However, drug and disinfectant dosages can change and are updated often, so always double-check dosages and procedures against a reliable, up-to-date formulary and the given drug’s documentation before administering it.

Mother and Baby Care for Community Health Workers

First published in 2017 by Bettercare. Updated October 2018. This version produced on 26 February 2025.

Text © David Woods 2016

ISBN (print edition): 978-1-928313-15-1

Excluding content explicitly credited to others, this book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0.

This licence means you may share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • Non-Commercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • No Derivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

For any other uses, please contact Bettercare.

← Title page
Contents →
Bettercare
Bookmarks
    Tap or select text, and then tap the bookmark icon to save a bookmark. Bookmarks are saved in your browser cache. Clearing your cache will remove them.
    Your last visit
      The last time you visited, you stopped reading here.
      Close
      • Twitter
      • Facebook
      • LinkedIn
      • WhatsApp
      • Reddit
      • Email
      • Link
      1. Home
      1. How to use our books
      2. Buy printed books
      3. About Bettercare
      4. FAQs
      5. Contact us
      1. Acknowledgements
      2. Introduction
        1. Why decentralised learning?
        2. Free Bettercare Online Learning Platform
        3. Updating the course material
        4. Contact information
        5. Registration
      3. 1 Care of the mother
        1. Objectives
        2. Maternal care
        3. Pregnancy
        4. Antenatal care
        5. Common problems during pregnancy
        6. Keeping healthy during pregnancy
        7. Important danger signs in pregnancy
        8. HIV during pregnancy
        9. Labour and delivery
        10. Postnatal care
        11. Case studies
      4. 2 Care of the newborn baby
        1. Objectives
        2. Size at birth
        3. Care of normal babies after birth
        4. Common problems in newborn babies
        5. Important danger signs in newborn babies
        6. Supporting mothers of newborn babies
        7. Registering newborn babies
        8. Case studies
      5. 3 Exclusive breastfeeding
        1. Objectives
        2. Choice of feeding method
        3. Managing exclusive breastfeeding
        4. Helping mothers to breastfeed
        5. Difficulties with exclusive breastfeeding
        6. Promoting exclusive breastfeeding
        7. Case studies
      6. 4 HIV in mother and baby
        1. Objectives
        2. Basics of HIV infection
        3. Spread and prevention of HIV infection
        4. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
        5. Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
        6. Feeding babies born to mothers with HIV infection
        7. Supporting HIV positive mothers
        8. Case studies
      1. How to use our books
      2. Buy printed books
      3. About Bettercare
      4. FAQs
      5. Contact us

      Managed by Electric Book Works

      Buy books

      Did you know? Training and learning can be easier on paper. Buy our books now, or order in bulk at low cost.

      Find out more