Self motherhood

Motherhood in its simplest meaning can be defined as a state of being a mother. Safe motherhood means ensuring that all women receive the care they need to be safe and healthy throughout pregnancy child birth.

The safe motherhood initiative is world wide effort that aims to reduced the number of death and illness associated with pregnancy and child birth. Safe motherhood can be achieved by providing high quality maternal health serviced ti all women during pregnancy,child birth and the post mar tum period. Service to help make motherhood safer include:care by skilled health personnel before, during and after childbirth and emergency care for life. Threatening obstetric complication. Good maternal health is the well being of the mother before during and after the baby's birth.

Preventing and managing those problems require a well functioning health system that provides accessible, high quality care from the household to the hospital level. In addition, a large of social, economic and cultural factors also contribute to women;s poor health before during and after pregnancy.Millions of women do not have access to good quality health services during pregnancy and child birth especially women who are poor uneducated or who live in rural areas. In case of Nepal, the situation of maternal health status is more critical Nepal demographic and health survey shows that one in two percent women receive untenable car, with 28 percent receiving care from a doctor or nurse, midwife or auxiliary health workers, 3 percent receive care from a maternal and child health worker and, 6 percent receive care from village health worker. Most Nepalese women who receive antenatal get if at a relatively late safe in their pregnancy and do not make the minimum recommended number of antenatal visit only one in seven women (14 percent) makes four more visits during their in tire pregnancy, while 16 percent of women report that their first visit occurred to less then four month of pregnancy. Forty five percent of women receive two or more doses of tetanus taxied injections during their most recent pregnancy.