Introduction

Safe motherhood begins before conception with proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. It continues with appropriate prenatal care, the prevention of complications when possible, and the early and effective treatment of complications. The ideal results are pregnancy at term, without unnecessary interventions, the delivery of a healthy infant, and a healthy postpartum period in a positive environment that supports the physical and emotional needs of the woman, infant, and family.

For the implementation to this, one of the approaches is visiting the client's (the pregnant mother's) home and talking to her and family. What function you will perform, before, during and on ending the visit need to be planned. In this aspect, before visiting the house, you need to review the client's pertinent data filled at the health post and elsewhere. Besides, you have to make sure that you obtain the permission of the clients to be visited. In this session, you will learn in detail the importance of home visiting and how to go about it during the process and how to end it. It is a mean to identify pregnant mothers and their problems (including the risk factors) and managing them at the spot.