Text4Baby

Text4baby

 

text4baby

The Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition is excited to be the statewide coordinator for text4baby, the first ever free mobile health service providing health tips to pregnant women and new moms. 

An educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) text4baby provides pregnant women and new moms with information to help them care for their health and give their babies the best possible start in life.  Women who sign up for the service by texting BABY to 511411(or BEBE for Spanish) will receive free SMS text messages each week, timed to their due date or baby’s date of birth.

 

Message Topics include:

  • Immunization

  • Nutrition

  • Seasonal flu

  • Mental health

  • Birth defects prevention

  • Oral health

  • Safe sleep

  • and connecting women to prenatal care and infant health services

IMCHC has organized a committed group of outreach partners including physicians, hospitals, community and health organizations as well as local businesses to promote text4baby.  We have successfully enrolled 3,500 users statewide to date.

 

Become a text4baby outreach partner!

Join us in spreading the word about text4baby and encouraging the women you reach to sign up.   We have free materials to help with your promotion efforts!  Please email text4baby@ilmaternal.org or click on the link below for more information and to order free promotion materials.

Order Materials Online Here»

 


text4baby Summer Sign-Up Contest


The text4baby Summer Sign-Up Contest is an opportunity for YOU to get credit for promoting text4baby! The 20 contestants who get the most people to enroll in text4baby between July 8th and September 10th will win a year’s supply of Baby products and a special gift that you can use yourself or donate, courtesy of text4baby’s Founding Sponsor, Johnson & Johnson. Additionally, by participating in the Summer Sign-Up Contest and enrolling more women in text4baby, you will also be helping Illinois win the State Enrollment Contest!


Here are a couple  of tips to help you get started:

  • Tell every pregnant woman and new mom you interact with about text4baby. If they haven’t already signed up for the program, help them enroll on the spot. Make sure to get credit for all your referrals by adding each woman’s phone number to the Contest form.
  • Work with your agency as a team and encourage everyone in your office to participate in the Summer Sign-Up Contest. To maximize your chances of winning, pick one of your colleague’s cell phone number to use in the Contest form. This way, all of your referrals will be credited to one person.

You can also encourage fans of text4baby to participate in the contest – download a black/white or color flyer that you can include in your outreach efforts.

To sign up for the contest, visit the Summer Sign-Up Contest Form page on the text4baby national website.

 

 

text4baby Webinar


August 2, 2011 | 11:00am – 12:00pm
Panelists: Kathy Chan, Associate Director/Policy Director, IMCHC
Sheila Sanders, Project Manager, Campaign to Save Our Mothers and Babies
Alvina Alvina Eineke, RN MSN, Community Health Initiatives Coordinator, Kane County Health Department

Thanks to everyone who participated in the August 2nd webinar on text4baby! For those of you who were unable to join us, a recording of the presentation and the power point used are available for download, along with a list of questions that were asked by participants during the webinar.

 

Be sure to visit our text4baby materials page to order FREE outreach materials. Please allow 10-14 days for delivery.