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Healthy Start

Healthy Start Services


• Parenting education and support
/
• Childbirth preparation/education

• Breastfeeding education

• Help to reduce stress

• Help to quit smoking

• Ideas for eating healthy

• Information on planning future
pregnancies for better health

• Links to other services in the community

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A Healthy Start...
Begins with a Screening Form
This form helps determine whether any factors about your health, living environment or day-to-day activities may be harmful to you and your baby. The screening is provided at no cost to you, and the answers you provide are kept private. Your responses are only used to help you have the best possible care for a healthy pregnancy.Image of a Mother In A Pink Shirt and a Hispanic Baby on the Right
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Any Woman

By completing a Healthy Start Screening Form, you are saying “yes” to learning more about the services and programs that will help keep you and your baby healthy throughout pregnancy. Your prenatal health care provider will determine if you should be referred to Healthy Start based on your responses. If you are referred, a Healthy Start representative will explain the results of the screen
and answer your questions. They will
help you decide what you and your
baby need, and find services in your
area to help you. Whether you decide
to receive those service is entirely
up to you. A Baby Smiling
Ask your doctor, nurse or midwife to complete a Healthy Start Screening Form, and let Healthy Start help you welcome your baby. After your baby is born, ask the birthing center to complete a Healthy Start Infant Screening Form that will help you identify anything that may affect your baby’s growth and development during the first year of life.

For more information visit the
Florida Department of Health and the
Florida Association of Healthy Start
Coalitions, Inc.
websites. Or you
can call 1-800-451-BABY.

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