Title: Describe postpartum care.
Course: GRADS: Family Focus (19905-36) > Section: Promoting Postnatal Care

Description should include

- roles of family members
- emotional needs of adolescent parents
- postpartum depression
- ways for others to offer emotional support
- practical assistance with household chores and childcare
- proper postpartum care of the mother.

Process/Skill Questions

Thinking

- What do you think your role is as mother of the baby?
- What role would you like to see the father of the baby fulfill?
- In what ways can family members give emotional support? Practical support?
- How can you distinguish between normal mood swings and postpartum depression?

Communication

- How can your parents help you in the postpartum period?
- How can you communicate your needs to your family members?
- How might sharing experiences of being a new parent with your own parents and siblings be comforting?

Leadership

- How can you provide opportunities for brothers and sisters of the newborn to help?
- How can you handle jealousy from older children?
- How can you make time for your older children?

Management

- How can you accept/ask for family help without imposing too much on them?
- What can help family members understand postpartum depression?