HIGHLIGHTS1. Pregnancy dangers should be known by any pregnant mothers, including those with visual impairment. 2. Educational media for visually impaired pregnant mothers can be in the form of auditory and palpatory media. 3. Auditory and palpatory media has been researched and developed in this study.4. The auditory and palpatory media increase the knowledge in health education of visually impaired pregnant mothers as they overcoming difficulties the often found. ABSTRACTObjectives: This study was a preliminary study (pilot project) on auditory and palpatory educational media of pregnancy danger signs for blind mothers. With the development of auditory and palpatory educational media, it was hoped that it helps blind mothers to understand pregnancy danger signs.Materials and Methods: The design of the study was a research and development study adapted into two stages, namely the needs analysis and the product design stages.Results: The results of the development of auditory and palpatory educational media included braille-lettered health education media and audio mp4 media which contained material on the danger signs of pregnancy in blind mothers.Conclusion: Auditory and palpatory media can increase the knowledge in health education because of their function to help overcoming many problems of difficulties in understanding and facilitating the reception of information by blind mothers.

Maternal mortality in Indonesia can occur during pregnancy, labor and delivery. The biggest cause is bleeding. Bleeding can occur during labor or postpartum. Birth attendant can be an indirect determinant of the incidence in postpartum hemorrhage. The aim of this study is to determine factors associated to choice of birth attendance.An analitycal research based cross sectional study was conducted from November 2016-November 2017. The study included 66 subjects who gave birth in 2016 were selected by purposive sampling technique. Data were collected by questionnaire. The collected data were analyze with chi square test using p value <0,05The result of statistic test showed that there was a significant correlation between knowledge (p = 0,000) and attitude (p=001) with the choice of birth attendant. There was no significant correlation between age (p = 0,253), education (p=0,071), employment (p=0,227) and accesibility (p=p=1,000) with the choice of birth attendant. Meanwhile, for support of the husband  level chi square test was not performed.From the results of the study it can be concluded that knowledge and attitude were factors related to choice of birth attendance. Meanwhile, age, education, employment  and accesibility were not factors associated to choice of birth attendance in work area of Silago Health Center.