The Diary Game: Having a Fun Time at the Ante-Natal Clinic: (7th March, 2025)

Special greetings to you all in this wonderful community! And happy International Women's Day Celebration 🎉 To all the wonderful women here. I hope you are doing well! Today, I want to share my experience at the ante-natal clinic, which was both exciting and fulfilling.

Shoot from Redmi A3: At work

My day began as usual with my daily morning devotion, thanking God for life, strength, gift of family and guidance. Thereafter, I carried out my house chores, ensuring everything was well cleaned and kept in order before having my breakfast. Then freshened up and ready for the day, got dressed and headed to work. Upon arrival, I and colleagues exchanged pleasantries, and we proceeded with our morning review session, were we discussed patient updates and plans for the day. Immediately the review was over, we all went to our designated duty posts. This time, I was posted to the ante-natal clinic 😊 and I was very excited because, it's over a month since I was last posted there. Meeting new pregnant women was a delight, as I looked forward to having an engaging session with them.

Shoot from Redmi A3: At Ante-natal Clinic

The session started immediately after most of the women completed their registration, after which they settled down for morning devotion led by a student nurse. It was a wonderful moment of worship, which set a positive tone for the day's activities 🥰 Then, it was time for the health talk, to educate the pregnant women especially the first time mothers. I had the opportunity to counselling them on "Avoiding Unhealthy Cravings During Pregnancy". I explained what unhealthy cravings are, as well as identified foods that are considered to be unhealthy, and recommended better alternatives for a nutritious pregnancy diet. The session was highly interactive, as the women shared various cravings they experienced like, eating of white chalk, craving for mineral, some said they cannot eat without taking soft drinks, some crave for burnt foods, eating stale foods etc. and they also asked questions on how to manage them. I and my colleagues took our time to counsel them on making healthier food choices, and they were excited to gain this valuable knowledge. Many of them expressed their hope to see me again in their future visits.
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Shoot from Redmi A3: During Health Talk

Afterwards, the session continued with the physiotherapist who educated the women on the importance of exercise during pregnancy. She demonstrated safe exercises that help prevent excessive weight gain and reduce pregnancy complications. The funniest of them all was when she talked about how to hold the cervix to prevent it from being expanding after putting to birth, it was really fun seeing the first time mothers trying to practice that 🤓

Shoot from Redmi A3:During Exercise session

After a long but fulfilling session, we returned to the office, while the nurses took over and showed them round different units that concerns them including the post ward, labs, scan rooms as well as the Labour ward and theater. She also should them where to go in case of emergency and educated them on the packed bag that should inside the bag Incase labour happens anyway someone at home can easily bring the bag from home without looking for wat to carry for the mother and child. Thereafter, I had my lunch, and documented our reports. By 4 p.m., I closed from work, feeling exhausted yet fulfilled, knowing that I had impacted the lives of expectant mothers in a meaningful way.