Join Northwest Health for a free event designed to inform and empower new and expectant parents. Northwest Medical Center-Bentonville, Siloam Springs Regional Hospital, and Willow Creek Women’s Hospital will host a Baby Fair from 4-7 p.m. on Aug. 6 on each campus.
In addition to hand-picked exhibitors and vendors, there will be local experts to offer classroom-style seminars. Guests can meet and interview OB/GYNs and certified nurse midwives, take a tour of the hospital’s labor and delivery department, and tour one of the low-intervention labor and delivering suites at two of the hospitals. Visit http://bit.ly/SummerBabyFairs to register or call (479) 757-LIFE (5433).
The March of Dimes Supportive Pregnancy Care (SPC) program offers prenatal care in a group setting with moms-to-be of similar gestational ages. At each group session, women learn to perform their own self-care by measuring and recording their own weight and blood pressure with the help of a facilitator. A new group is being recruited now and will begin on Aug. 8. Interested women – those in their first trimester of pregnancy – should call (479) 757-1730 or email CommunityRelations@nw-health.com for more information, or to enroll.
Through the program, a licensed obstetric provider meets individually with each woman to perform a physical assessment and discuss specific concerns in a semi-private area within the group space. During each SPC visit, women benefit not only from prenatal care education, but also from the social and emotional support they receive from other mothers.