Home Visits During Pregnancy Reduce Risk Of Low Birth Weight Babies

by Sreeraman on  January 07, 2009 at 3:25 PM Women Health News
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The percentage of LBW babies for the home-visited mothers in the study essentially met Healthy People 2010’s goal of reducing prevalence to 5 percent. Of mothers who received home visits, 5.1 percent had low birth weight babies, while the rate for unvisited mothers was 9.8 percent.

Carolina Reyes, executive director of the LA Best Babies Network, said that home visitation can be empowering for a mother and can improve her ability to be more engaged in her care. Reyes said this study is consistent with others demonstrating that an intensive, personalized home visitation program improves birth outcomes and could have a long-lasting effect on mother and child.

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