Maternity and Infant Welfare: A Handbook for Health Visitors, Parents, & Others in India

By Ruth Young

Maternity and Infant Welfare: A Handbook for Health Visitors, Parents, & Others in India describes the hygiene of pregnant women and the puerperium. This book is organized into two main parts encompassing 22 chapters that discuss the physiology and general care of normal pregnancy, as well as the abnormal conditions in pregnancy. Some of the topics covered in the book are the testing of urine; development and conditions of syphilis, gonorrhoea, and tuberculosis during pregnancy; causes and prevention of abortion and still-birth; preparations for child birth; care of the lying-in woman; care of the newly born infant; and causes and prevention of puerperal sepsis. Other chapters deal with the general development of a healthy baby and the care, feeding, training, and discipline of infants. These topics are followed by an analysis of the conditions of premature babies. The remaining chapters examine the disorders of the stomach and intestines, as well as the development of marasmus, rickets, respiratory tract disorders, and abnormalities in infants. The book can provide useful information to nurses, doctors, students, and the general reader.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Release date: Jan 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483194073

Ruth Young

Ruth Young is a missionary, disciple maker, Bible teacher, educator, and a pastor’s. She invites readers to journey with her to experience what God can do when we follow His leading. Her missionary journey to Ghana in West Africa has touched the lives of many people and her mission work with her husband Edward Young in Jackson Michigan bears fruit for God’s glory. The simplicity of the gospel of Jesus Christ is evident in the works of the author. She inspires hope in readers to know the grace of God can carry us beyond human limitations. Just like Moses and Gideon who felt they were not qualified to fulfill the call of God on their lives due to human limitations and family background the author wrestled with her limitations however the grace of God helped her to prevail. She inspires readers to walk by faith and see God perform miracles with ordinary people. She demonstrates how God does extraordinary things through ordinary people.The author’s life story is the manifestation of the Spirit life in Christ that causes us to triumph in all things.

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