New York City unveils new postpartum checks and home visits for 1st-time parents

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Big maternal health changes are coming to New York City as officials announced that home visiting will be offered to new parents, from prenatal to postnatal stages.

CWHA is a non-profit dedicated to improving maternal health in its communities. CWHA works with programs that provide doulas and postnatal education to first-time mothers.

"They always check in on me, and it feels like I'm not alone," Marsha said, adding she supports the initiative to be expanded to all families. "They lower the risk for maternal anxiety, depression and other health challenges," Barbot said."New Family Home Visits provides a coordinated approach to offering proven services to new families independent of socioeconomic status, immigration status or race because every family is susceptible to these types of potentially destabilizing experiences.

 

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Imagine that. A liberal city trying to lower our maternal deaths rates while the GOP ignores the problem.

They are trying that in Oregon as well. Hope you can refuse if you want

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