Physical Health
The content on this page has been written with mothers and pregnant women in mind and fact checked for accuracy using resources from the South African National Department of Health. Find information on the COVID-19’s implications for your and children’s physical health during pregnancy, breastfeeding and early childhood.
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COVID19 FAQs for mothers
What’s different for pregnant and postnatal women in the time of COVID-19? The symptoms and signs of COVID-19 are the same in pregnant women as the general public. Everyone should take care to avoid infection or infecting others. You help protect yourself by: as often...
Grow Great joins other NGOs to support mothers during COVID 19
NGO collective and the national department of health’s under 5 Side by Side campaign launches Messages for Mothers (M4M), an initiative that creates and distributes simple messages that answer the questions mothers have about COVID-19 and its effect on the physical...
FREE RESOURCE: Social media graphics with helpline numbers for COVID-19 (English and Afrikaans)
We have created these social media graphics with useful helpline numbers across a variety of topics. Please share on your social media networks as they may help someone. English and Afrikaans versions available for now. General COVID-19 in South Africa Mental Health...
COVID-19 Algemene vrae en antwoorde vir ma’s
Vraag Ek is swanger. Is daar ‘n groter kans dat ek COVID-19 sal kry? Antwoord Op die oomblik is daar nie bewyse dat swanger vroue meer vatbaar is as die algemene bevolking nie. Nietemin is swangerskap ‘n tydperk van verandering vir jou immuniteit, so swanger vroue...