The Health Services that are offered at the House for Life of the Kichwa Midwives Women Association from the High Napo - AMUPAKIN include:

Health at birth, post birth, attention during pregnancy, encourage maternal breast-feeding, monitoring of sexual and reproductive health and traditional cures with yachaks (healers).

We attend according to the uses and customs of our indigenous traditional medicine from the High Napo.

Our attention as midwives is warm and self-managed, through the revaluation of our uses and know-how from the indigenous traditional medicine as well as the use of medicinal plants from the area. Our attention has a key role regarding health preservation for the inhabitants of the 71 communities within the Archidona canton in the province of Napo , in Ecuador .

TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

PREGNANCY MONITORING, ATTENTION AT BIRTH, POST BIRTH:

The midwives' attention is warm and a quality attention. They use the vertical birth method. The child's father also participates. They attend 24 hours of the day.

During pregnancy: the midwife will revise the women several times. She will recommend natural medicine for her health. She will verify the child's position and possible complications at birth. She will carry out "cleanings" if necessary. She will contribute to the normal growth of pregnancy state.

At birth: the midwife will prepare a medicine to alleviate the woman's pains and to help her. When the child is born, they will play the flute in order to receive the new born baby with a joyful melody; baskets will also be prepared with objects according to the sex of the child.

After birth: the midwife will visit the women and her child to control their health and food. She will recommend maternal milk and some natural medicines to strengthen the milk and, others to be used as vaccines.

PLANTS CULTURES and LIVING PHARMACIES:

At the House for Life each midwife has its chakra (land space) to seed medicinal plants according to the tradition. The flora diversity of the Ecuadorian Amazone is influenced by a range of elements for its growth.

The variety of atmospheres, habitats, biotic factors, physical conditions, quemical and topographic conditions are some of the elements that midwives take into account when seeding plants.

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