Maternity
The researchers found that pregnant women received a large amount of attention from their supervisors, community, and local health workers. Those who worked on farms were not allowed to work after their 28th week of pregnancy. After the child was born, mothers could leave their child at a day care center, though they were usually left at home for the grandmother to take care of. Those who worked in factories received check ups at work, were allowed less work hours, and when their child was born, day care was provided with hours to breast-feed. Breast-feeding was a common practice with factory workers, and farmers were able to take every few hours off to feed their child. Many females during their first month of pregnancy visited the local midwife, to make sure everything is fine and establish a comfortable relationship. Every month after, the midwife would take blood pressure to check for toxemia. For those working in factories, the in house health worker was the person that administered the biological pregnancy test. This is because every female worker had to fill out a menstruation card and it was the responsibility of the heath worker to notice when a few days have been missed. (Wegman, 221)
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