How Men Can Help Men can help protect the lives and health of women as they become mothers and can attend to the health of their children. Safe motherhood consists of ensuring good health for women and their babies during pregnancy, delivery, and in the postpartum period.
Men play many key roles during women's pregnancy and delivery and after the baby is born.
Planning their families. Limiting births and spacing them at least two years apart are good for maternal and child health. Unintended pregnancies are particularly likely to be risky because they are more likely to end in abortion. Supporting contraceptive use. Men can accompany their partners to meet with a family planning counselor or health worker.