Free Mother’s Day Gift for Latina Moms and Moms-to-Be: text4baby

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Can’t decide what to get mom for Mother’s Day on May 13, 2012?

Have her sign up for Text4baby, a free bilingual mobile information service that provides pregnant women and new moms with info to help them care for their health and give their babies the best possible start in life.

First, text BABY (or BEBE for Spanish) to 511411.

Once enrolled, women get free weekly text messages timed to either her due date or baby’s date of birth. Messages were developed by government and non-profit health experts, such as the CDC, and cover nutrition, immunization, and birth defect prevention, among other topics.

Text4baby, an educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), launched two years and has enrolled about 300,000 subscribers and sent more than 28 million text messages. The program has more than 700 outreach partners including MTV and the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.

Learn more at www.text4baby.org. Follow the effort on Facebook and Twitter.