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THREE MONTHS TO THREE YEARS ADOPT A MOTHER AND CHILD SCHEME

Introduction:

Our Guru His Holiness Swami Shantanand Saraswathi (Swamiji) called Mother and Child Care ( MCH care ) as “3 months to 3 years” that is care of a child from three months of conception to 3 years of age. Since a healthy child needs a healthy mother to begin with, services such as proper antenatal care, safe deliveries, immunization, health education and postnatal care are given. The first three years are the formative years and proper MCH care would ensure that the child gets a head start in life.

Long before antenatal care was conceived by the West, India knew it’s importance. That a child is a living entity in the womb–responding to, not only the mother’s physical and mental status, but also to all outside stimuli was well known to our Rishis. So, when modern science tells us that the intelligence of children can be developed even before birth by talking to them, it really does not come as a great surprise to the Hindu mind! There is ample scientific evidence that children while in the womb respond to stimuli such as noise, music and prayers. Based on this knowledge, Swamiji advocates that all pregnant women should attend prayer sessions regularly and try to pray and remain calm and entertain only sattvic (pure) thoughts.

Mother and child health care – The tradition :

In India elders advise that pregnant women be pampered and kept in good spirits throughout pregnancy. They knew that depression, anger and frustration in the mother are directly transmitted to the child. A distressed child will be born with developmental anomalies - be they physical or psychological. To ensure physical, mental and spiritual well being of the mother and child several methods are adopted. For example, the ‘Valai Kaapu’, (a spiritual ceremony which is performed during the second trimester) results in the enveloping of the woman and the foetus with a Divine shield of mantras

Traditionally also in the last trimester of pregnancy the woman is sent back to her maternal home so that she can be given the tender loving care that only her mother is capable of giving her. A rich treasury of traditional practices-which have stood the test of time-such as dietary restriction, medicinal herbs, child care practices etc are also handed down from mother to daughter during this period. Unfortunately, such practices are fast being lost with our so called ‘civilised’ lifestyles.

THREE MONTH TO 3 YEARS CARE AT A GLANCE

Type of care	Components	Cost
Antenatal care	Nutritional supplements	Rs.1000 - 00
	Laboratory Investigations	Rs.1000 - 00
	Ultra Scan (3 to 4 should be scanned)	Rs.1500 - 00
Natal care	Delivery	Rs.3500 - 00*
Postnatal care	Immunization of child	Rs.1000 - 00
	Total	Rs.8000 – 00

* This is for a normal delivery. If it is caesarean section, the natal care will be Rs.12,000/-

HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE :

Kindly help us by sponsoring a mother from 3 months of her pregnancy till her child is 3 years old.

Sponsors will be listed in a register of sponsors and linked with mother’s as they come to the center for MCH care.

Regular progress reports will ensure that sponsors are kept informed about the mother and child they have “adopted”.

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Donations are exempt u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961

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