Prenatal Nutrition in Canada
The Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) is a program that is funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), providing support and promoting public health to improve maternal-infant health. Through Florence Nightingale’s historic fundamentals of chattering hopes and advice to the patient, educating on what food to eat, and taking food, healthcare providers of Canada can advance maternal-infant health care today.
It is important for women who are planning to have a child or already carrying one, to do as much as they can to have a healthy child. Firstly, Adolescent pregnancies should be avoided because the adolescents themselves have not fully grown, and therefore resulting in a small for gestational …show more content…
Many kids with FASD have lower IQ results, facial abnormalities, hyperactivity, low birth weight, poor memory, speech delay, experience sleeping difficulties as a child, vision and hearing problems, and problems with bones, kidneys, and heart (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). The psychiatric care in Canada associating with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome multiplies in numbers. Statistics Canada has conducted in 2008 to 2009, that Canada spends an average of $412.58 million dollars in psychiatric care per day (Popova, Lange, Bird & Rehm, 2012). Overall, the data proves that Canada is trying to help prevent FASD in children, by educating and providing mothers about the negative effects of substance abuse on the fetus. Thirdly, if an obese women has had a Bariatric surgery, a surgical procedure used for weight-loss, it is advised to not conceive for a child for at least a year post-surgery. The reason for this is, the fetus may form malformations and have a significantly low birth weight. After the surgery, patients experience many nutritional deficiencies (specifically in protein, vitamin B12, folic acid, iron, ferritin, calcium, and albumin) and abdominal pain …show more content…
Florence also writes, food should not be left by the patient’s bed side. Large amounts of food should not be shown to the patient, it may prompt “a greater or less incapability of taking food” (Nightingale, 2005, p.37). The mother may feel forced to eat more that she is capable of, leading to a higher or lower chance of eating the food. Nurses and caregivers should let the mothers’ nurse the infant and eat alone. They should not start a conversation with mothers’ while they are eating or nursing the infant. Florence Nightingale says, one “cannot be too careful as to quality in sick diet” (Nightingale, 2005, p.38). This is very crucial, because if the mother has eaten something raw or undercooked before, during, or after pregnancy, the mother and infant’s health is in jeopardy. When the mother breastfeeds the infant, the child will become sick too. It is also important for the mother to take all the daily nutrients and supplements that are required, so both the infant and mother are
The Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) is a program that is funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), providing support and promoting public health to improve maternal-infant health. Through Florence Nightingale’s historic fundamentals of chattering hopes and advice to the patient, educating on what food to eat, and taking food, healthcare providers of Canada can advance maternal-infant health care today.
It is important for women who are planning to have a child or already carrying one, to do as much as they can to have a healthy child. Firstly, Adolescent pregnancies should be avoided because the adolescents themselves have not fully grown, and therefore resulting in a small for gestational …show more content…
Many kids with FASD have lower IQ results, facial abnormalities, hyperactivity, low birth weight, poor memory, speech delay, experience sleeping difficulties as a child, vision and hearing problems, and problems with bones, kidneys, and heart (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). The psychiatric care in Canada associating with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome multiplies in numbers. Statistics Canada has conducted in 2008 to 2009, that Canada spends an average of $412.58 million dollars in psychiatric care per day (Popova, Lange, Bird & Rehm, 2012). Overall, the data proves that Canada is trying to help prevent FASD in children, by educating and providing mothers about the negative effects of substance abuse on the fetus. Thirdly, if an obese women has had a Bariatric surgery, a surgical procedure used for weight-loss, it is advised to not conceive for a child for at least a year post-surgery. The reason for this is, the fetus may form malformations and have a significantly low birth weight. After the surgery, patients experience many nutritional deficiencies (specifically in protein, vitamin B12, folic acid, iron, ferritin, calcium, and albumin) and abdominal pain …show more content…
Florence also writes, food should not be left by the patient’s bed side. Large amounts of food should not be shown to the patient, it may prompt “a greater or less incapability of taking food” (Nightingale, 2005, p.37). The mother may feel forced to eat more that she is capable of, leading to a higher or lower chance of eating the food. Nurses and caregivers should let the mothers’ nurse the infant and eat alone. They should not start a conversation with mothers’ while they are eating or nursing the infant. Florence Nightingale says, one “cannot be too careful as to quality in sick diet” (Nightingale, 2005, p.38). This is very crucial, because if the mother has eaten something raw or undercooked before, during, or after pregnancy, the mother and infant’s health is in jeopardy. When the mother breastfeeds the infant, the child will become sick too. It is also important for the mother to take all the daily nutrients and supplements that are required, so both the infant and mother are