Pregnant? A new Mom?
Text4baby is a free service of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition
Website: text4baby.org Text: BABY (BEBE para Español) to 511411 to sign up!
Help us promote text4baby in Kane County! Information on the Kane County Contest to increase enrollment
What? Text4 baby is a free service to help new moms (also great for dads, grandparents, caregivers, and more)! Text4baby provides totally free text messages to your cell phone 3 times a week with information to help you through your pregnancy and baby’s first year.
Watch a video on YouTube about how text4baby works.
How? To sign up, from your cell phone simply Text BABY (BEBE para Espanol) to 511411
You can stay active until the newborn celebrates his first birthday! You can cancel at any time.
Or, Sign up online by going to text4baby.org
Why? More than 500,000 babies are born prematurely, and 28,000 children die before their first birthday in the US. So that babies can be born healthy and remain healthy! Text4baby sends:
Who? Individuals: Text4baby is designed for pregnant women, fathers-to-be, and parents of newborns. Grandparents and child care givers can sign up too! They can provide more support for the mom-to-be or the new mom with information and resources on taking care of their bundle of joy!
Communities: The national Text4baby Coalition has engaged many community partners to help promote the service to local families. The local Kane County Text4baby partners are: the All Our Kids Early Childhood Network, the Kane County Perinatal Committee, the Kane County Circles of Wise Women-Aurora & Elgin, and the Kane County Health Department.
Local partners of this program: Kane County Health Department AOK -All Our Kids Early Childhood Network Kane County Perinatal Committee Circle of Wise Women - Aurora & Elgin
Materials Flyer - English Poster - African American Mother Poster - Caucasian Mother Poster - Hispanic Mother, in Spanish
