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BVQ supports The Healthy Start Program by providing infant quilts: These are given to Healthy Start for “Tummy Time”. Kits are available at BVQ meetings, or grab some juvenile fabric from your stash or the quilt shop and make it 36" x 36".
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Healthy Start works to prevent infant mortality in 87 communities with infant mortality rates at least 1.5 times the national average and high rates of low birthweight, preterm birth, maternal mortality and maternal morbidity (serious medical conditions resulting from or aggravated by pregnancy and delivery).
Healthy Start communities are some of the nation's poorest and Healthy Start families frequently struggle to meet their most basic needs.
Healthy Start reaches out to pregnant women and new mothers and connects them with the health care and other resources they need to nurture their children.
HRSA funds community-based organizations, universities and local health departments to develop Healthy Start programs that
Healthy Start communities are some of the nation's poorest and Healthy Start families frequently struggle to meet their most basic needs.
Healthy Start reaches out to pregnant women and new mothers and connects them with the health care and other resources they need to nurture their children.
HRSA funds community-based organizations, universities and local health departments to develop Healthy Start programs that
- Improve women's health before, during and after pregnancy and
- Help families care for their infants through their first 2 years so they are healthy and ready to learn.