MIRIAM MATILDA DJAMA NUMANYO

I support women and their families through pregnancy and labour and in the time immediately after birth. I work in a range of settings, including expectant women’s homes, midwifery-led maternity units and GP surgeries. I am are part of a team of professional and medical staff that includes doctors, social workers, neonatal nurses and health visitors. I supervise maternity support workers

My typical duties include:
.Examining and monitoring pregnant women
.Assessing care requirements and writing care plans
.Undertaking antenatal care in hospitals, homes and GP practices
carrying out screening tests
.providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners
.Taking patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures
.Caring for and assisting women in labour
. monitoring and administering medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labour
.monitoring the foetus during labour
.Advising about and supporting parents in the daily care of their newborn babies
.Helping parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death
.writing records
.Tutoring student midwives
.Identifying high-risk pregnancies

· Receive and register new clients at the antenatal clinic.

· Assess, identify and manage high risk clients accordingly and refer if beyond my strength.

· Educate mothers and care for both mother and newborn during puerperium.

· Conduct deliveries

· Monitor the labouring woman using the partograph.