Doing Something about Prenatal Care

There is a direct correlation between prenatal care and birth outcome. Women who receive inadequate or little prenatal care are more likely to deliver low birth weight babies, babies with neurological problems, and babies who have long term health care issues through childhood and adulthood.

Women most likely to receive inadequate care are the uninsured. Some black, some Latino, some teens, some uneducated, most uninsured. Because they lack insurance, they forgo care they cannot afford and they lack adequate information about the kind of prenatal health care they should seek. Many uninsured women do not seek health care until the second trimester, which is detrimental to both their health and the baby's.

What's unfortunate is that many of the complications associated with inadequate prenatal care could be prevented. Diabetes, high blood pressure, and weight issues can be controlled during pregnancy. That is, if a woman knows.

Babies who receive inadequate prenatal care incur hospital costs 25 times what babies with no complication do. And their hospital stay is six times longer. The Center for Disease Control knows about it. The March of Dimes knows it.

Now you know it. The question is, when is anybody going to do anything about it? Our team is committed to helping uninsured and under insured pregnant moms get the prenatal care they need and deserve. Ask today how you can help. Together we can make an impact and a difference!!!

Fighting for the uninsured and under insured pregnant moms and their unborn babies,

Advocate Aaron