Study shows
it takes new mums six months to enjoy their baby
A new study has found that most new mothers can’t enjoy
their babies till they are six months old, due to tiredness and stress.
According to the study, sleepless nights, lack of confidence
and fears about the baby’s safety take the joy out of the first precious weeks,
the Daily Express reported.
Almost half of 1,600 women questioned felt their performance
as a mother was being judged by others.
Only half the women who took part in the poll felt their
husbands provided enough support during the exhausting first months.
One in six did not start to enjoy their child until after
their first birthday.
A spokesman for Nurofen for Children, which sponsored the
poll, said that women tend to assume pregnancy is the main hurdle, but in
reality, the really hard work starts when the baby enters the world.
Source: http://health.india.com
17.01.2014
Lessons Pak can learn from India
about polio eradication
A
newspaper Thursday said lessons should be learnt from India if Pakistan wants
to eradicate polio.
In an
editorial, The Nation saluted the efforts undertaken by both official and
non-official agencies in India to overcome the polio virus.
‘After
three years of resounding success involving only one case of polio, India
recently established itself as the world’s most recent country to have
eradicated the crippling polio virus,’ it said.
‘The
success was the result of a large base of vaccinators, public charities, UN
agencies along with the help of private donors and the central government.
‘The
vaccinators – an army of around two million – receive robust support from
religious and community leaders, and reach slums, train stations as well as
other remote parts of the country to provide shots to children.’
The daily
said although Pakistan faced ‘a different and convoluted set of problems’, yet
‘we could learn an important lesson from India’.
‘We do,
after all, have an extremist virus that views inoculation campaigners as
spies,’ it said.
‘For
starters, we need our government to solidify more serious and sincere efforts
into training and increasing vaccinators.
‘With the
scanty number we have at this moment and considering our gargantuan population,
the ratio falls too low and the risks to these brave few are many.
‘Secondly,
our community leaders along with religious figures should feel morally
obligated to eliminate the paranoia surrounding polio programmes.’
In a clear
reference to the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, the editorial said: ‘Yes, a
vaccination programme was faked once but that does not constitute as the norm
but a deeply unfortunate exception.’
A
Pakistani doctor carried out a fake vaccination programme in Abbottabad where
bin Laden lived apparently at the suggestion of the American CIA. The doctor is
now jailed in Pakistan.
The Nation
said Pakistan was the only polio-endemic country that had seen an increasing
number of polio cases — from 58 in 2012 to 83 in 2013.
‘Polio is
not a health issue in Pakistan; it is, much to the helplessness of people, a
politicized quagmire.
‘Without
dedicated input from our politicians and leaders, this will not going anywhere,
and our children will suffer the most.’
Source: http://health.india.com
17.01.2014
Ritu
Ghatourey
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