The name of maternal-child nursing is one that receives a branch of nursing that is responsible for carrying out activities and tasks related to pregnant women or women in labor as well as children once they have been born. Maternal-child nursing is perhaps one of the branches of nursing that requires the greatest dedication and commitment because, with regard to newborn patients, we are talking about very delicate and fragile patients who need all kinds of attention, care and a lot of commitment.
Because maternal and child nursing has to deal with the most important phenomenon of the human reproductive cycle, its object of work cannot be limited only to a specific moment, but takes into account the entire process from the beginning of the reproductive cycle. , going through pregnancy and childbirth, the puerperium and continuing in the reinforcement and care of family health once the mother-father-child group has been established.
The main objective of maternal-child nursing is to prevent the presence of any type of complications or diseases that may alter the normal reproductive cycle, pregnancy and birth of the child. So it is then that this branch of nursing must take care not only of the mother but also of the child from before it is born, that is, from the moment it begins to develop within its mother's womb.
Some of the situations that this branch of nursing deals with are the control and care of the reproductive health of women, the vital signs of the mother and the child during pregnancy, nutrition, the moment of delivery and the further development of the baby once it is born (its growth and adaptation).
