Thread by @WHO

If you are pregnant, you can help protect yourself against #COVID19 by:

✔️ Washing your hands frequently
✔️ Keeping space between yourself and others
✔️ Avoiding touching your eyes, nose and mouth
✔️ Practicing respiratory hygiene

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All 👩🧕👩🏾 have the right to a safe childbirth, whether or not they have a confirmed #COVID19. This includes:
✔️being treated with respect & dignity
✔️a companion of choice
✔️clear communication by maternity staff
✔️pain relief strategies
✔️mobility in labour where possible

👨‍⚕️👩🏽‍⚕️ supporting a🤰 giving birth with suspected or confirmed #COVID19, must protect themselves & others through:
🔷 👐 washing
🔷 wearing gloves, 😷 & protective clothing
🔷 limiting the number of accompanying people
🔷 maintaining a record of people entering the woman’s room

Close contact and early, exclusive breastfeeding helps a baby to thrive.
A woman with #COVID19 should be supported to:
☑️ breastfeed safely
☑️ hold her newborn skin-to-skin
☑️ share a room with her baby
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Women with #COVID19 can breastfeed if they wish to do so.
They should:
☑️ Practice respiratory hygiene and wear a mask
☑️ Wash 👐 before and after touching the baby
☑️ Routinely clean and disinfect surfaces
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All 🤰 and women with babies, including those affected by #COVID19, should be supported to breastfeed their babies safely:
🔸 Within 1 hour of birth
🔸 Exclusively till 6 months of age
🔸 Up to at least two years of age, with complementary foods
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When a woman with #COVID19 is too unwell to breastfeed, she should be supported to safely provide her baby with breastmilk if she wishes, in a way possible, available, and acceptable to her. This could include:
🔷 expressing milk
🔷 relactation
🔷 donor human milk