How and where you put your baby to sleep can dramatically affect your baby’s risk of suffocation.
Keeping your baby safe is as easy as ABC:
_A_lone: Babies should sleep alone in his/her own space, with no people or objects next to the baby that may accidentally obstruct his/her airway.
_B_edding: A baby’s sleep surface should have no loose bedding, blankets, toys, crib bumpers, or stuffed animals.
_C_rib: The safest way for a baby to sleep during naptime or bedtime is on his/her back, in an empty crib.
For more info, visit www.GiveYourBabySpace.com
Have questions about your health or your baby’s health? Call 1-800-251-BABY (2229) for information about:
The call is free, confidential and lines are open 24/7.
It’s estimated that over 80% of car seats are installed incorrectly. Help spread the word about car seat safety and you can be entered to win a car seat for you or a loved one:
1) Like Sammy the Stork on Facebook
2) “Share” our Car Seat Safety Tips to your Facebook wall.
Doctors say you should have your babies at least 18 months apart. That means you should wait until your youngest child is at least 9 months old before you become pregnant again. A campaign called Map Your Life is bringing attention to this. Go to www.greatplan.net to learn more and click here for a list of low cost family planning services in the New Orleans area.
Teens in New Orleans have helped map out all kinds of resources and services for themselves (but helpful for adults too!). Looking for health care services, housing, or a free meal? Go to www.nolayouthmap.org.
Looking for healthcare resources? Check out the Adolescent Healthcare Resource Guide.
Louisiana has changed Medicaid and LaCHIP and these programs are now called BAYOU HEALTH.
In BAYOU HEALTH, you choose a Health Plan and provider for each member of your family who has Medicaid or LaCHIP. For information about Bayou Health, click here.
Breast milk is the best possible food for most babies. In Louisiana to help you find info and resources related to breastfeeding just click ZIPMILK.ORG. At that website, all you have to do is enter your zipcode, and you can find resources in your area.
The Partners for Healthy Babies project started in 1993 and is funded by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health and WIC Programs. To keep informed about our program please SUBSCRIBE to our MCH newsletter.
The Partners for Healthy Babies project started because about 10 percent of all babies in Louisiana were born small and weak. These are called low birthweight babies (less than 5.5 pounds) and many of them die before their first birthday.
One of our main goals is to link pregnant women to the services they need to help them be healthy before, during and after pregnancy.
