Check this out Soon-to-Be and New Mommies

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has joined the


National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB) Coalition in a publicprivate

partnership to provide text4baby, a national campaign to promote

maternal and child health by offering free text messages to pregnant

women and new moms. Missouri women who sign up for the service by

texting BABY to 511411 (or BEBE in Spanish) will receive free text

messages each week, timed to their due date or baby’s date of birth.

Messages focus on a variety of critical maternal and child health topics,

including birth defects prevention, immunization, nutrition, seasonal flu,

mental health, oral health, and the safest ways for babies to sleep.

Text4baby messages also connect women to prenatal and infant care

services and other resources in Missouri.

The HMHB Coalition specializes in promoting optimal health for mothers

and babies by creating partnerships among nonprofit organizations,

professional associations, businesses and government agencies. The

text4baby partnership includes the White House Office on Science and

Technology Policy and the U. S. Department of Health and Human

Services as well as the text4baby wireless carriers who are voluntarily

distributing text messages to recipients free of charge. Missouri is proud to

be a text4baby partner. By putting timely health information directly into

the hands of pregnant women and new moms, text4baby can have a

significant impact on maternal and child health in Missouri.

Encourage the pregnant women and new moms you know - clients,

customers, patients as well as family members - to sign up for text4baby

and receive three free text messages each week encouraging them to care

for their health and give their babies the best possible start in life. Women

who need information beyond the text messages will be connected to

Missouri’s TEL-LINK number, 1-800-TEL-LINK (1-800-835-5465) for

Missouri-specific resources. The Missouri Department of Health and

Senior Services has distributed a news release and will be developing

promotional items to support the tex4baby campaign statewide. Let’s

partner together in Missouri to promote text4baby and make a difference in

the lives of our mothers and babies.

For more information visit www.text4baby.org or call the Bureau of

Genetics and Healthy Childhood at 1-800-877-6246.

Text4baby is a free mobile information service designed to promote maternal and child health. An educational

program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), text4baby provides pregnant

women and new moms with information to help them care for their health and give their babies the best possible

start in life. Women who sign up for the service by texting BABY to 511411 (or BEBE in Spanish) will receive

free SMS text messages each week, timed to their due date or baby's date of birth.