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The Maternity Center is a place where expectant mothers can find education, safe and sanitary conditions and respect for them and their babies. We have two full-time midwives on staff who love these women and are committed to giving them loving and honoring care before, during and after their labor experience.
Women can join our Prenatal program during their pregnancy and come to our center weekly for monitoring and to recieve vitamins, a good meal and an educational class relating to caring for themselves during pregnancy. After the baby is born, often in our own birthing room, the mother and child move into the Child Development class. This class is designed to teach practical parenting skills to the mothers. We are seeing healthy babies being born in Haiti and are so blessed to share in this experience with these precious mothers!
Child Development After the ladies in our prenatal program have their babies, they begin attending our Tuesday, child development classes. Every week Haitian mothers show up faithfully for class. When they arrive their babies are weighed to check for proper weight gain. If a mother is having breastfeeding issues we work with her, encourage her, and give her the information she needs to continue to successfully nurse her baby. Then the women eat a high protein meal together.
After lunch the ladies participate in a child development class. We teach about topics relating to parenting, motherhood, womanhood, nutrition, and breastfeeding. We see these classes as very important in empowering women with truth and life-saving information for themselves and their children. In addition to teaching, we also learn a lot from the women about Haitian culture. We teach, but we also listen. When class is over medical care is offered for the women and children who are sick.
We desire to holistically minister to the women and children in our program by giving the gift of knowledge and medical care while incorporating the gospel and God’s love into all of our interactions with the ladies.
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