New Tool for Mothers to Be to Help Them and Their Babies Stay Healthy
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 6:20PM 
text4baby is a new tool for expectant mothers and providing health information to mothers about their health during pregnancy and the health of their babies via their cell phones. The service is sponsored by Johnson and Johnson and is free to use.
"Women will receive about three text messages per week with accurate and timely health information about a variety of topics, ranging from prenatal care to mental health to immunization, as well as resources such as reminders of milestone appointments, until the baby’s first birthday."1
Even despite having the best healthcare technology in the world, the US still sees about 500,000 premature births and 28,000 infant deaths a year. Many contributing factors to these statistics include poverty, low access to health care and bad health habits. text4baby and similar initiatives believe that better access to health information will lower those numbers and help more women have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies.
For more information, read "New Moms Get Advice Via Texting" by Deesha Patel from Georgia Health News.
To sign up for the service visit www.text4baby.org.