Postnatal Care

We are Focused on You and Your Baby After Delivery

Our goal here at East Point Hospital, Bangalore, goes beyond delivery; it begins as an entirely new chapter for the mother and the baby. That is the reason we have Postnatal Care services, which encompass a mother and baby’s needs during the crucial weeks and months following delivery. During this time, also called the postpartum phase, the body goes through physical recovery and emotional shifts, and the baby starts to grow and develop a bond with the mother.

Our doctors, nurses, lactation consultants, and counsellors will work with you through the various recovery phases to ensure your newborn is given the best care possible, nurtured, and guided through the early stages of life.

Understanding Postnatal Care

Mother’s and the newborn’s wellbeing after childbirth by providing necessary medical attention, emotional nurturing, and practical support. This period usually includes the first six weeks after delivery, but based on requirements, support may last longer.

Whether you have undergone a normal delivery or C-section, the postnatal period is an opportunity for healing, learning, and adaptation. At East Point Hospital, we specialize in making care during this transition smooth, effortless, and wholesome.

Postnatal Services Available at East Point Hospital

• Mother’s Routine Follow-Up Visits: Our gynecologists closely follow your recovery by checking your uterus, bleeding, blood pressure, and surgical wounds (if a C-section was performed). Overall health, pain, emotions, and wellbeing are evaluated, too.
•  Baby Monitoring Postpartum Care: At our assisted baby health services, our pediatric practitioners ensure that your newborn is feeding, gaining sufficient weight, and experiencing developmental shifts in milestones. We also guide you with baby care, including sleeping, vaccination, and hygiene.
• Pain Relief and Wound Treatment: For mothers who underwent suturing, C-sections, or other possible delivery complications, our staff takes care of proper wound healing and provides prescription pain relief and infection prevention medication.
• Support For Breastfeeding Women: We provide counselling for mothers experiencing breastfeeding challenges, such as latching difficulties, bruised nipples, or milk supply issues. Formulated baby milk guidance is offered for mothers unable to breastfeed.
• Emotional And Mental Wellbeing Support: Depressing anxiety postpartum is prevalent. Our therapists we trained prepared for these situations by offering emotional and stress relief sessions, helping cope with hormonal and sleep deprivation changes.
• Nutrition and Diet: To effectively recover and lactate, a breast-feeding mother is required to have balanced nutritious diet and meal plans that our dietitians prepare are tailored to allow straightforward preparation at home.
• Physiotherapy/Postnatal Workouts:We assist you in performing gentle exercises that aim to strengthen the back, pelvic floor muscles, and tummy. Physiotherapy focuses on safe healing pathways for mothers who have undergone C-sections.
• Family Planning and Contraceptive Advice: Consultation regarding safe methods of contraception after childbirth is given in relation to the family planning order that you wish to follow based on your health condition and wishes.
• Screening Tests and Vaccination of Newborns: Initial vaccines such as BCG, OPV, and Hepatitis B are administered in a clean, secure setting. We also provide screening tests for babies to assess them for some rare but serious health disorders.

Diagnosis and Evaluation

We initiate our postnatal care immediately after delivery, continuing through and after follow-up appointments. We conduct clinical examination, blood pressure monitoring, and physical assessment of the mother and baby, and if necessary, we perform blood tests or scans to exclude infection, anaemia, or complications.

For emotional well-being, we take simple screening approaches to assess postnatal depression signs and anxiety.

Treatment and Recovery

We always personalize each treatment. Supportive therapies, medication, and rest are provided for physical concerns. For emotional and psychological issues, counseling and therapy sessions are provided along with in some cases, monitored medication.

Breastfeeding difficulties are managed with direct support and the use of breast pumps or supplemental feeding, if appropriate. For mothers post C-section, wound care and rehabilitation therapy is incorporated into our usual care.