The Florida Outreach Childbirth Education & Parenting Program will be holding it’s next Childbirth Educator Training session Feb. 25- March 1 in Gainesville, Florida. The training program is taught by Connie Mullen, a licensed midwife, nationally certified professional midwife and certified birth educator with 28 years of experience. The workshop will include both theory and… Read More
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study today showing a possible linkage of folic acid sufficiency in pregnant women to the prevention of autism. The data, taken from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study, tracked over 85,000 babies born over a span of six years. Researchers found a correlation between folic acid… Read More
Show Your Love is a new national campaign developed by the Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (PCHHCI). Launching on Valentine’s Day, its goal is to help women prepare for healthy pregnancies and babies by adopting healthy habits well before becoming pregnant.
MaterniT21 is the name of the new prenatal test that can detect genetic abnormalities at just 10 weeks with 99 percent accuracy. The new DNA-based screening test is a simple procedure, it only requires a blood sample from the mother. MaterniT21 can pinpoint genetic disorders like Down syndrome by examining fetal DNA in the mother’s… Read More
The Agency for Health Care Administration added a new page, Deliveries and Newborns, to its website, FloridaHealthFinder.gov. FloridaHealthFinder.gov is a consumer and researcher health information resource website. The site includes a link to the Think 39 Weeks! Campaign being implemented by the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions, Inc. to educate consumers about the importance… Read More