Handbook for Mothers

MOTHERCARE project generally aims to provide accessible, sustainable and scientific support mechanisms for mothers in postpartum period in terms of both their own psychological health and also their attitude towards the babies, pedagogical sense of care. In this sense, we can summarize the objectives of WP1 as follows: 1.1. To put forward the literature review and field studies on this subject in order to make the foundations of the project laid on a scientific base (rel. to the O1). This will guide for the preparation of a handbook for mothers and also the revision of the project modules. 1.2. To guide the mothers about postpartum period through The Handbook for the Mothers, referring i) what they experience / face with (embodying their problems) ; ii) how they tackle with the issues they face ; iii) how the babies should be approached in a healthy pedagogic perspective in this period. (rel to the O2-O3) 1.3. To increase the awareness about the importance of psychological health and pedagogical trainings for mothers in postpartum period (rel. to the O4-O5)

Onscreen Support Board

Although prenatal health care is universally covered by health insurance and nationally tracked in many countries, postpartum health care is largely neglected. The WHO guidelines recommend that if the mother and baby are discharged from hospital sooner than 48 hr after birth, a qualified professional should assess them within 24–48 hr after discharge. However, majority of mothers are not seen by a health-care professional for weeks leaving her to cope during with minimal professional support during a crucial period of transition. In order to fill out this gap, MOTHERCARE project aims to develop online support systems which can be reachable by any mother from any location. In this respect, the main objective of this WP is to produce videos with the relevant mother-support content. This WP aims to record videos based on the handbook content produced in WP-1. It is important to note that the target group of our project has special needs; therefore the video content are needed to be special too. The main objective is to create an easy to access video based material which will serve as a useful guide on assisting disadvantaged mothers who have newborns and don’t know how to deal with many problems they face.