Archive for the ‘Pregnancy’ Category

Tomorrow night (7/15/10), at 10pm, a new series begins on Discovery Health called NICU: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. This series is a collaborative effort from Discovery Health, Farmers Insurance, and the March of Dimes. The series follows real families and their babies as they fight for survival and experience the rollercoaster of emotions that come with having a premature baby. The series shows the daily care that is needed in the NICU to keep the tiny babies alive and features doctors and nurses from leading hospitals in Baltimore, San Diego and Cleveland. For more information and show times, click on NICU.

After hearing local NICU stories today at our Premature Infant Health Network meeting, I have realized that these families go through so much. They need our support and understanding.

It is frightening to think that many premature babies are born to mothers who are healthy and have no risk factors. That’s why knowing the signs of pre-term labor are so important. Please refer to our past posts to learn more about pre-term labor: Preterm Labor Can Happen to You and Preterm Labor: Know Your Risks.

Do you have a preterm labor story? We’d like to hear from you.  

Source: Discovery Health 

During February, we shared information about a new program called “Text4baby.” If you haven’t tried this free service for cell-phones, and are currently pregnant or the mother of a new baby, we wanted to encourage you to sign-up. Text4baby is a free service that provides you with text messages with timely and useful tips to help your baby and you stay healthy.

Think you already know it all? You’d be surprised how helpful the text for baby tips can be even for a mom of 7! Watch the clip below to find out more.

Eye on New York: On Family

 For more information visit www.text4baby.org

 Have you tried this service? What did you like best about it? What did you like least about?