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With mums through nine months
- Downtown Plus, Times of India-25 April
2003
of companies and who breastfeed their
babies while working actively," maintains Dr Shah, who
promotes breastfeeding by providing information and instructions.
Postnatal sessions help mothers get back in shape and tone
up stretched muscles after delivery. It also includes personal
and infant care after delivery and education and information
regarding post-natal depression an affliction that
is not as rare as believed.
Incidentally, Dr Rita Shah has been trained at the APSO-Lamaze
(American Society of Prophylactic Obstetrics) in the US. She
claims she is the only Indian representative of Lamaze International,
where childbirth educators from all over the world meet once
a year to exchange ideas on latest labour techniques.
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