Let’s celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with good health
From September 15th through October 15th we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. This is a time where we recognize Hispanic culture, achievements an ...
Say “thank you” this Neonatal Nurses Week 2019
The newborn or neonatal intensive care unit (also called NICU) is a nursery in a hospital that provides around-the-clock care to sick or premature ...
International FASD Awareness Day
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (also called FASDs) are always caused by drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Don’t drink alcohol if you’re pregnan ...
Newborn screening saves lives
Before your baby leaves the hospital, he has some special tests called newborn screening. Newborn screening looks for rare but serious and mostly ...
Here is why we need Black Maternal Mental Health Week
August 26-31, 2019 marks the first Black Maternal Mental Health Week. It’s a week dedicated to creating awareness about the mental health of black ...
Black Breastfeeding Week 2019
If you follow us on Twitter and Facebook you may have noticed that we’ve been sharing some important messages about breastfeeding as part of Natio ...
Pumping your breast milk 101
There’s no doubt that breast milk is the best food for babies in the first year of life. Breast milk has fatty acids, like DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), ...
Vaccines help prevent serious diseases in your baby
August is National Immunization Awareness Month
It’s always better to prevent a disease than to treat it after it occurs. That’s why vaccines are s ...
Can you reduce the risk of having a baby with a genital or urinary tract defect?
Genital and urinary tract defects are birth defects that affect sex organs (like the penis or vagina) and the urinary tract (like the kidneys or b ...
Vaccines before, during and after pregnancy
Vaccines help protect you from diseases but during pregnancy you also pass this protection to your baby. That’s why if you’re pregnant, or planning to ...