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Midwifery is defined as the practice of managing childbearing women and neonates, requiring formal education and legal licensing. Obstetrics focuses on the medical management of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum care, particularly in high-risk situations. The document emphasizes the importance of quality healthcare for all pregnant women to reduce maternal mortality and improve pregnancy outcomes.

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Midwifery

Midwifery is defined as the practice of managing childbearing women and neonates, requiring formal education and legal licensing. Obstetrics focuses on the medical management of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum care, particularly in high-risk situations. The document emphasizes the importance of quality healthcare for all pregnant women to reduce maternal mortality and improve pregnancy outcomes.

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MIDWIFERY/

OBSTETRICAL
NURSING
DEFINITION,WHO 1992
• “A person who has been regularly admitted to a midwifery education
programme, duly recognized in the country in which located has
successfully completed the prescribed courses of studies in midwifery
and has acquired the requisite qualification to be registered and/or
legally licensed to practice in midwifery”
• OBSTETRICS is currently defined as that branch of medicine that deals
with the phenomena and management of pregnancy,labor and the
postpartum in low and high risk circumstances
Midwifery
• It is still the term used to delineate the practice of anurse who is
responsible for management of child bearing women and neonatyes
within a health care system that provides for collaborative
management and referral(American College of Nurse Midwives,1993)
The Focus of maternity practices has
expanded to include the childbearing family
asa whole,as well as the woman
• Health care providers recognize that
• All health individuals have the right to be born healthy and to ensure
this right ,every pregnant women and fetus has the right to achieve
quality health care
• The sexuality of individuals is inextricably bounded to reproduction
but not subordinate to it.changing societal attitudes towards
sexualuty,role relationship and child bearing,together with
technologic advances in fertility control
• Reproduction is not experienced alone,whatever the circumstances,it
involves one or more addition individuals.
• Reproduction is a normal psychophysiologic process and can be
physically and emotionally rewarding for those involved.
• The childbearing experience is a development opportunity,it can be
situational crisis during which family members benefit from the
solidarity of the family unit
• The principal aim of antenatal care is the early recognition and
management of the high risk patient. This study aim to analyze the
situation of ANC and pregnancy outcome in Mizoram.
• Maternal mortality is one of the major cause of death among women
of reproductive age in developing countries.
• It is difficult to predict which expectant mother will develop
pregnancy related complications and that is why it is essential that all
pregnant women must have access to high quality obstetric care
throughout their pregnancies.

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