Mothers and fathers told to space kids

By JAMES GUMUNO
WOMEN giving birth every year have been urged to space their children.
Prof Glen Mola, head of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of PNG’s School of Medicine and Health Science, said mothers giving birth every year were likely to lose a lot of blood and die.
He said that even some highly-educated women were becoming like illiterate women and giving birth every year.
Mola said this on Tuesday during the graduation of community health workers in emergency maternal and newborn care in Mt Hagen.
“I was assisting another doctor at the antenatal clinic at Hagen Hospital on Monday and surprised to see a high school teacher, who had a baby through caesarean delivery last year, now pregnant again,” he said.
“I told her that she was wrong and she admitted that she made a mistake already.”
Mola said when a mother had a baby through caesarean delivery, they must wait three years before having another baby.
He said that many mothers died of loss of blood during birth because they had babies almost every year, with no proper family planning to space their children.
Mola said he was also surprised to see women becoming pregnant.
He said that becoming pregnant at such as age was dangerous and mothers could lose their lives during birth.
“I want to appeal to husbands and wives out there to go for family planning clinic,” Mola said.
He urged mothers to take their husbands to family clinic for counseling on how to space their kids, and when to have new babies.
Mola urged fathers not to give burden to their wives and urged both to go for family planning to save lives, have at least three or fewer children to properly look after and give more spacing to babies.
He said there were no side effects of implants used on women to control birth.