I think that the nurses who working in the hospital must give some advises for the women after delivering the baby, before going back to home with new baby. so the awareness campaigns must start in the hospital before community.
there are traditional postpartum practices for the mother and the newborn. Such as tightening the abdomen direct after birth, complete bed rest, eat very high caloric food. And for the barbies, bath him with salt water, very tight swaddling, herbal feed, squeeze the baby breast to empty them and etc.
I suspect that most traditional practices, though they may seem odd nowadays, are not harmful to either mother or child. Most have benefits such as the provision of extra social support for the mother which probably helps prevent postpartum blues and helps to keep distraught fathers out of the way. It is also a comfort for the mother to have a precise recipe for what to do and not do - otherwise she feels she is doing things wrong when the baby cries or doesn't sleep or doesn't feed.
What can be harmful though is when traditional ways (recommended by mothers and mothers-in-law) are contradicted by friends and visiting nurses. Then the mother is in a real quandary.
yes completely true. I conducted a research study on the transition to parenthood in Jordan and found that Jordanian young parents hate the extensive information and social support from their elders.
my study has produced a new understanding of the experience of Jordanian new parents' transition to parenthood. it particularly sheds light on the current dilemma in which Jordanian new parents find themselves in, which reflect a clash between traditional and modern values.
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