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    Conference Hands on Project 2010

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                  Birthing Kits

  
   

You can help a mother or a baby survive during delivery through the use of one simple kit.

The birthing kit costs about $8 to assemble and contains basic yet essential items to promote safe and healthy deliveries.

They include:

  One hotel-size bar of soap – to clean the birth attendants both before delivery and prior to cutting the umbilical cord, and clean the mother after delivery.

  One pair of clean latex gloves – to reduce disease transmission 

  One square yard (4 ml) of clear plastic sheeting – to provide a surface to deliver the baby

  Three pieces of clean string each 12 inches long – to tie umbilical cord. 

  One clean single use razor blade – essential for clean cutting the umbilical cord.

  Two flannelette receiving blankets, each 1 yard – one to stimulate the baby, and one to swaddle the baby

  One gallon zip lock bag – to package the kit and to hold the placenta for safe disposal

These kits are distributed only to hospitals and clinics with programs place to provide education on how to use them correctly.

      

 

Bring the your kits to Lakeview for the 2010 Fall Festival.

These kits will be donated to UMCOR to be distributed where they are needed most.