To create a generation of smart and healthy, it is important to plan every pregnancy well. One way to improve the nutritional status long before pregnancy.
Facts in Indonesia shows the high level of malnutrsi in pregnant women in Indonesia. Based on data from the Health Research in 2013, 37.1 percent of pregnant women are anemic.
In addition, another study showed 50 percent of pregnant women have a lower nutrient intake of Nutritional Adequacy Figures are recommended.
In fact, pregnant women malnutrition affect fetal health and labor. In the fetus, the risks that can occur among miscarriage, stillbirth, congenital defects, anemia in infants, low birth weight, and newborns with low health status.
Another impact of poor nutrition during pregnancy also occurs when the mother in labor. Such as difficult labor, premature delivery, bleeding after childbirth, and childbirth and surgery.
Recognizing the importance of the health status of pregnant women, the government improve public education about the importance of the periods of the first 1,000 days of a baby's life.
Quoted from Kompas Daily (26/01/2017), the government of Surabaya, East Java, for example, encourage active midwives of health centers dropped into homes to educate the bride about the importance of health and nutritional status examination before marriage.
"Prospective brides should understand the importance of nutrition in the first 1,000 days of a baby's life. Nutrition mothers and babies in the future affect the future of both," said Mayor of Surabaya Tri Rismaharini yesterday.
Chief Medical Officer of Surabaya Febria Rachmanita said, the implementation of the 1000 Movement program First Day of Life since October 2016, the bride, accompanied by free six months before the marriage until the child's second birthday.
A total of 150 midwives prepared to intercede bride and puskesmas or health consultant. One midwife accompanies three couples.
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