Endocrinologist

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the health of pregnant women and their unborn babies.
• Educating patients as well as their partners and family members on reproductive health, preparation for parenthood, and antenatal care.
• Teaching patients with pain management techniques to prepare them for labor.
• Delivering patients’ babies in birthing centers, patients’ homes, or hospitals as well as providing emotional support and encouragement during labor.
• Taking and recording patients' blood pressure, temperature, and pulse as well as ordering diagnostic tests as needed.
• Helping patients and their partners to cope with miscarriages, stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and terminations.
• Teaching new mothers how to feed their newborns.
• Assisting patients in creating suitable birth plans.
• Providing sound advice to patients regarding diets, exercises, and medications suitable for pregnancy.