If you’re pregnant or a new mom, there is new free service called text4baby that can help keep you and your baby healthy. Text4baby will send 3 text messages each week to your cell phone with expert health tips to help you through your pregnancy and your baby’s first year.

• • It’s free to sign up and the messages are free.
• • To sign up, text BABY to 511411.
• • To sign up for text4baby in Spanish, text BEBE to 511411.
• • You can also sign up and find more at www.text4baby.org.

Text4baby helps new and expecting mothers give their babies the best possible start!  The Partnership Center is pleased to promote the launch of an exciting new mobile information service called text4baby.  Text4baby is an educational service of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. Saginaw has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the state.

Consider spreading the word about text4baby to your clients, congregants, program participants and patients

If you are interested in getting more involved with text4baby, there are posters and other promotional materials available for your outreach efforts.  Please contact info@text4baby.org or 703-837-7548 for more information.

Each year in the U.S. ,

• • more than 500,000 babies are born prematurely and
• • an estimated 28,000 children die before their first birthday, signifying a national public health crisis.
• • The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is one of the highest in the industrialized world and.
• • Prematurity (is this a word?) is often cited as being a leading cause of infant mortality.

Thank you very much for your support of this important initiative. Text4baby is made possible through a broad, public-private partnership that includes government, corporations, academic institutions, professional associations, tribal agencies and non-profit organizations. Founding partners are HMHB, Voxiva, CTIA - The Wireless Foundation and WPP. Johnson & Johnson is the founding sponsor, and premier sponsors include WellPoint, Pfizer and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. U.S. government partners include the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Health and Human Services. The mobile health platform is provided by Voxiva and free messaging services are generously provided by participating wireless service providers. Implementation partners include BabyCenter, Danya International, Syniverse Technologies, Keynote Systems and The George Washington University .