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Empowering Community Health Workers as Counsellors for Postpartum Family Planning

This session highlights the critical role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in counseling mothers about postpartum family planning (PPFP). By providing care where they live and work, CHWs can significantly impact women's health. They will learn to counsel mothers during pregnancy and after childbirth about the timing of potential pregnancies, the importance of maternal health, and the options for family planning, including post-birth methods. Timely counseling is key to ensuring mothers receive the support and care they need within crucial postpartum periods.

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Empowering Community Health Workers as Counsellors for Postpartum Family Planning

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  1. Session 2b PPFP: The Role of the CHW

  2. Why use CHWs as counselors for PPFP? • Because they care about the lives of women and families in their community (where they also live and work).

  3. CHW role • CHWs will learn to counsel mothers in their homes: • During pregnancy, and • After childbirth

  4. Key PPFP messages • CHWs will learn to give messages about: • When mothers can become pregnant again after a birth • The importance of care for the mother, not only care for the baby

  5. Key PPFP messages • Family planning for breastfeeding mothers: • Using a method by 6 weeks postpartum • How to use LAM • For mothers who are not breastfeeding, getting a family planning method by3 weeks postpartum • Details on all the family planning methods mothers can use

  6. When to counsel mothers? • When to give PPFP messages is very important.

  7. When do CHWs make PPFP visits? • When the woman is pregnant, AND • Many times after the birth so there are no missed chances to offer her PPFP help!

  8. No missed chances to counsel mothers • This is KEY because mothers needa PPFP method: • Within 6 weeks after birth if breastfeeding • Within 3 weeks after birth if not breastfeeding

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