San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba.- Within the Maternal and Child Program the Maternal Home get pregnant with special needs for monitoring, control and modification of risk factors. This area provides care for 13 pregnant women, the institution is maintained at full capacity.

Teresa Perez Casanova, specialist in General Medicine, next to nursing team, pregnant gives systematic attention. Teresa explains that reach to the institution by dissimilar factors and family physician criteria.

The MGI specialist points out that complete the multidisciplinary team a nutritionist, cardiologist, gynecologist, psychologist and other specialties from the particularities of pregnant women with the aim of modifying risk factors through healthy lifestyles, orientations to correct eating habits and psycho preparatory work to address childbirth and breastfeeding as exclusive way to feed the baby.

She adds that in the maternal home pregnant entered and remain pending change risks, are frequent teenage pregnancies at risk of prematurity, low birth weight, twins pregnant, or who live in remote rural areas and other triggers risk.

She states that the primary care of the physician and nurse in the health area, visits at Mother Home, also specialists address health issues of Maternal and Child Programme, are actions for birth and health of the pregnant woman, indicators of the efficiency and effectiveness of health care of this vulnerable sector.