Today our topic of discussion is Teaching Dais at Home.
Teaching Dais at Home
TEACHING DAIS AT HOME
The dais or traditional birth attendants (TBA) are an integral part in providing maternal care services especially in the rural areas and urban slums. Dai not only assist at the time of child birth but she is also a counselor to the village women during pregnancy and after delivery and in the times of illness.
Importance of Dals Training
- Training of dais on correct practices can bring about a radical change in improving the health of mothers and newborns
- The trained dais can be utilized for spreading in their work may reduce the morbidity and mortality
- Teaching of proper skills and sterile technique in their work may reduce the morbidity and mortality.
Considerations in Dais Training
- Some Dai will grasp the subject very rapidly while others will be slow. The teaching must be in a very simple language and should be repeated many times
- Dais learns best in small groups
- Dais learn best when they participate in the learning process
- The dais vocabulary is small and simple. She learns new terms slowly do things
- Discuss, ask questions and learn how they before each class and demonstration
- Evaluate you are teaching, observe and supervise five or more deliveries in each year.
Objectives of Dais Training Program
- Antenatal care: The dais in the community should motivate for antenatal pregnancy advice to take balanced diet and adequate rest during antenatal period .The dais should able to identify the high risk women and maternal complications. The dai should prepare the antenatal mother mentally and physically for normal delivery
- Delivery practices: Clean practices such as clean hands, clean surface, clean razor blade, and clean cord tie and clean cord stump
- Postnatal: The dai should have basic knowledge to provide newborn care such as warmth, infectional control, advice on immunization and birth spacing.
Selection of Dais
- The traditional birth attenders are actually practicing the profession are to be invited
- Preferably some elderly ladies in the community.
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