Pregnancy week celebrated

Getting mothers-to-be as ready as they can possibly be.

Pregnancy Awareness Week has become an annual event in hospitals around the country. Chistina Mndaweni, CEO of Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Germiston (left), and Alice Khantsi, the operational manager of the maternity ward of the Bertha Gxowa Hospital, spent their week educating the future mothers who come to the hospital.

Pregnancy awareness week has become an annual event in hospitals around the country.

Alice Khantsi the operational manager in the maternity ward of the Bertha Gxowa Hospital has spent the week educating the future mothers who come to the hospital on everything they may need to know throughout their pregnancy.

Topics included the importance of nutrition and a well-balanced diet throughout a pregnancy, danger signs during pregnancy, complications that may take place during pregnancy and what steps should be taken if these should occur and many more.

“The week aims at getting mothers-to-be as ready as they can possibly be, especially woman who have never been pregnant before,” said Chistina Mndaweni CEO of Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Germiston.