Safe motherhood

Maternal health care and safe motherhood

By Tapas Saha, 06/11/2019

Achieving maternity leads women to a fulfilling life securely. For this reason, if a woman is in the womb, the woman has to follow religious rules and hygiene, otherwise, both mother and child may be in danger of death. A healthy mother can give birth to a healthy baby. Safe motherhood is essential for a healthy baby. For this reason, the pregnant mother's rest, care and reproductive health care are very important. A woman will be a safe mother, the responsibility of all, indeed safe motherhood is the right or equitable right of every pregnant woman. With this, the issue of the future generation of the country and the nation is involved. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the father to provide for the mother and the newborn baby.


However, most children in society suffer from various types of malnutrition due to lack of a balanced diet. As a result, their newborns are also nourished. In the future, the bride will go to the mother's place in the family one day. Usually, after serving food to the husband or other members of the family, the wife does not keep the food she needs for herself. Therefore, it is imperative for the husband or wife of the child to take care of the proper amount of protein and vitamin-rich foods, so that the husband should keep a watchful eye. Pregnant women need different nutritious and balanced diet when their baby is in the stomach. Because, not one of his meals, mother and baby survive two lives. Especially during pregnancy and breastfeeding, babies need to be more careful about food. For this, special importance should be given to the pregnant wife's diet.


Keeping mothers healthy is essential to building a healthy and prosperous nation. A healthy mother can gift a healthy race. So the care of the pregnant mother is basically the care of the baby. The mother has to take care of her baby right away from the moment the baby comes into the womb. When the baby is in the womb, the mother's body needs a lot of food and nutrition. At this time both the mother and her baby need food. Therefore, pregnant mothers should eat more nutritious and moderately balanced foods.

The great Creator has given women the right to safe motherhood and the ability to conceive. Although the process of pregnancy and childbirth of women is extremely risky. Some die prematurely due to childbirth complications and unsafe maternity, some live a life-long illness. Thus, pregnant women are being deprived of proper reproductive health care due to family illiteracy, poor quality of maternity care, wrong treatment, poverty, illiteracy and, above all, neglect of the husband. Physical-mental well-being of the wife is most essential during pregnancy.

In this regard, Islam emphasizes the importance of securing religion and the life of mother and baby. Various life-saving initiatives that help secure motherhood are equally helpful in protecting a child's life. Due to lack of education and religious turmoil, mothers in rural areas are frequently undernourished due to lack of maternity care due to lack of maternal health. Thus, maternal malnutrition feeds the death of a newborn due to the health of infected mothers. It is usually a nightmare for women to become safe because of early childhood, abortion, unplanned pregnancy, malnutrition of the teenage mother, anaemia, bleeding during pregnancy, obstetric fistula, and lack of medical care. Therefore, to prevent maternal mortality, the mother and the unborn should be cautious of the pregnancy. Adult and postpartum reproductive health care need to be ensured as well. For this reason, everyone in the Muslim family can give religious guidance, honest advice and encouragement to the mother from the time she becomes pregnant.

The mother has to be very careful when the baby is born. In the remote areas, many mothers die prematurely due to inadequate treatment at home by inefficient midwives or by a hammer doctor in the village. As per the doctor's advice, life can be risky if not treated. Physicians and health workers should be advised to come forward to alert the people to protect the pregnant mother and child and to prevent the mother from frequent childbirth. In order to ensure women's reproductive health care, the importance of safe motherhood awareness should be emphasized. According to the physician's suggestion for the development of maternal health, proper planning and implementation of family planning are absolutely essential. Therefore, it is desirable to take part in the widespread mass incentive program of the people of the country irrespective of caste-creed, for safe motherhood rights and maternal health care for pregnant women.