Journal of Nurse Midwifery and Maternal Health

Introduction: Education is vital for the healthy growth and development of one’s personality. In making the ‘being ‘human’ to produce: human beings” lies the importance of educating the teens. The parental involvement has a positive impact on the academic achievement and it is held true. No matter the race or ethnic group. The education to teen must aim at helping an individual to form a skill. Set and work upon it to develop expertise in the schools of his/her interest. Methodology: Quantitative approach and descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the 200 people from the selected urban and rural schools at Puducherry. Result: The result showed that the overall level of academic academic achievement among adolescents in urban school 43% were high achievers, 57% were moderate achievers and none of them was lower achievers. In rural adolescents 38 were high achievers, and 62% were moderate achievers and none of them lower achievers. So, the adolescents were involved with academic achievements they improve their studies. Academic achievements is important for the adolescents to involve to concentrate their studies.

Counselling is the professional advice and guidance given to the person by the trained person in order to assist the client to explore, discover and clarify ways of living more positively, satisfactorily and successfully in the society. Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. Each stage should be a positive experience, ensuring women and their babies reach their full potential for health and well being. Midwives are playing a very vital role in taking care of the women during her perinatal period. This article discusses the importance of counselling skills in midwifery practice which helps in delivering high quality, compassionate care to the mother during her perinatal period and also explores the way in which midwives can develop their counselling sills. Midwife: A midwife is a person who, having been regularly admitted to a midwifery educational programme, duly recognized in the country in which it is located, has successfully completed the prescribed course of studies in midwifery and has acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and/or legally licensed to practice midwifery. (ICM 2005) Midwifery: Midwifery is defined as “skilled, knowledg eable and compassionate care for childbearing women, newborn infants and families across the continuum from prepregnancy, pregnancy, birth, postpartum and the early weeks of life”. The evidence shows us that midwifery plays a “vital” role, and when provided by educated, trained, regulated, licensed midwives, is associated with improved quality of care and rapid and sustained reductions in maternal and newbornmortality. (WHO) ICM: International Confederation of Midwives, CMBC: College of Midwives of British Columbia, WHO: World Health organisation

A menstrual cup is a menstrual hygiene tool which is inserted into the vagina in the course of menstruation. Its motive is to accumulate menstrual fluid (blood from the uterine lining mixed with different fluids). Menstrual cups are typically product of flexible medical grade silicone, latex, or a thermoplastic isomer. They are formed like a bell with a stem or a hoop. The stem is used for insertion and elimination, and the bell-formed cup seals against the vaginal wall simply below the cervix and collects menstrual fluid. This is unlike tampons and menstrual pads, which take in the fluid rather every four 12 hours (relying on the quantity of float), the cup is eliminated, emptied, rinsed, and reinserted. After every period, the cup requires cleaning. One cup may be reusable for up to 10 years,making their lengthy term value decrease than that of disposable tampons or pads, although the initial price is higher. As menstrual cups are reusable, they generate less strong waste than tampons and pads, each from the goods themselves and from their packaging maximum menstrual cup manufacturers promote a smaller and a larger length. A few menstrual cups are bought colorless and translucent, but several manufacturers also offer coloured cups.

Breastfeeding, or nursing, is the process by which human breast milk is fed to a baby. Breast milk can be from the breast, or can be pumped and fed to the infant. The world fitness company (WHO) recommends that breastfeeding begin in the first hour of a child’s existence and retain as often and as a lot because the toddler wants health groups, which includes the WHO, recommend breastfeeding completely for 6 months which means that no different meals or liquids, aside from nutrition D, are generally given. WHO recommends distinct breastfeeding for the primary 6 months of existence, accompanied by using persisted breastfeeding with appropriate complementary foods for up to 2 years and past. Of the one hundred thirty five million toddlers born every year, most effective 42% are breastfed within the first hour of life, most effective 38% of moms exercise exceptional breastfeeding during the primary 6 months, and 58% of moms continue breastfeeding as much as the age of two years and past.