Healthy Pregnancy
Network Health offers the Baby & Me – Steps to a Healthy Pregnancy program to educate, inform, and assist expectant parents during their pregnancy and in the days following delivery.
Our Baby & Me care management coordinators are nurses with experience in prenatal and postpartum care who offer additional support to people who are expecting a child, whether it's their first child or their fourth. We can provide emotional support during pregnancy and will help expectant parents:
- Maintain a healthy pregnancy
- Follow their doctor's recommended treatment plan
- Locate educational resources
- Access nutritional counseling if needed
- Find helpful community resources
- Get answers to questions about any aspect of their pregnancy
- Coordinate home care and referrals to specialists if needed
How Care Management Can Help
One of our Baby and Me staff members contacts expectant parents around the 12th week of pregnancy to ask a few questions about the mother's health and past pregnancies. If there are indicators that early monitoring would be beneficial, an expectant mother is referred to one of our care management coordinators who will assist her with services and care to help during her pregnancy.
If the pregnancy does not require special monitoring or additional care, we call again between the 27th and 30th week of pregnancy. During this call, we offer expectant parents additional information and educational opportunities, answer questions, and provide information about the last phase of pregnancy and the upcoming birth.
After the baby is born (when mom and baby have left the hospital), the Baby and Me care coordinator nurse will call to discuss questions or concerns about mom's and baby's health. Around this time, we also send information about infant immunizations and the best time to begin them.
Care management coordinators also work with parents of babies born prematurely or with special needs, providing advice and information about care and services available to them. Our care coordinators also stay in contact with parents and the baby's doctor during the baby's hospital stay and after the baby leaves the hospital.
