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Babies 
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Raising a baby is an exciting and important time. Parents want to do everything they can to keep their babies safe and healthy.

The information found here is for parents and the many people who support and provide services for them. Together we can help give babies the best start in life.

 

Resources for parents


Babies First! is a nurse home visiting program for families with babies and young children up to age 5.
Information about breastfeeding promotion efforts in Oregon.
Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) - A public health initiative designed to increase use of developmental screening tools as a part of well-child care provided by child health providers.
High quality care environments and skilled providers can preserve, protect and promote children’s health through daily opportunities for healthy meals and regular physical activity and protection from communicable disease.
Information about health screening programs for babies.
Oregon's Home Visiting System - a statewide home visiting system designed to improve the efficiencies and effectiveness of our programs to better serve Oregon’s families.
Goals: have newborns screened for a possible hearing loss by one month of age, identify congenital hearing loss in children by three months of age and enroll them in appropriate early intervention by six months of age.
To avoid the tragedy of an abandoned baby, Oregon created a law that allows a distressed parent to give up a baby safely, legally, and confidentially.
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