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Provides enhanced services to pregnant and post-partum women, health education services such as the importance of continued prenatal care, prenatal and postpartum nutrition education services, normal changes during pregnancy, self-care during pregnancy, and warning signs to report to a doctor. Can also provide information on labor and delivery, the normal process of labor, signs of labor, coping skills, danger signs, referrals to child birth classes, and breastfeeding information and support!

Presumptive eligibility for Medicaid can be processed by staff at New Opportunities, Inc. Presumptive eligibility is temporary Title 19 insurance for pregnant women while it is being determined if eligible for Medicaid services.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Provide support to breastfeeding mothers. Peers help moms improve their breastfeeding experience. They work with moms outside normal working hours through various communication and social media options.

Provides programs and services to support the health of children and families.

Program includes family case management, WIC, and breastfeeding education and support.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
WIC
Case/Care Management

Offers breastfeeding education and support groups.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups

Offers support and education groups that cover the advantages of breastfeeding, how to breastfeed, starting solids, childbirth, and weaning. Groups meet monthly, and meetings last about 90 minutes. Accredited leaders also provide breastfeeding information by phone.

Meeting Information:

- Day meeting - Held the second Tuesday of each month at 10 am, at St. John's United Methodist Church (109 West 14th Street, Davenport, in the upstairs children's room).

- Night meeting - Held the fourth Wednesday of each month at 7 pm, at UnityPoint Hospital, Bettendorf (Room 2224); dads are welcome at this meeting.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
Regional Health Services of Howard County offers instruction on prenatal care as well as instruction on newborn infant care. Also provides information and instruction on appropriate techniques for nursing an infant for expectant parents or new mothers.

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Early Pregnancy Classes
Breastfeeding Support Programs

Breastfeeding support center offering individual consultations for mothers and babies having difficulty with breastfeeding. Board certified lactation consultants available by appointment.

Prenatal breastfeeding classes offered monthly.

Breastfeeding supplies, including nursing bras and breast pumps available for purchase.

Hospital grade breast pump and baby scale rentals.

Free drop-in weight checks during open hours.

Moms groups available, and well as Beyond Breast introducing solids presentations. Call or visit website for details.

Additional workshops and classes offered periodically on parenting topics including soothing techniques, nutrition, returning to work, and fitness. Contact office for information.

Breastfeeding information center available on website, with extensive breastfeeding resources available free of charge.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Breast Pumps
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics
Support and breastfeeding education.
Provide infrastructure building and enabling services. Infrastructure building activities include partnerships with tobacco control community, connections with Quitline, health equity, distribute information on IA maternal mortality, referrals for prenatal care (medical/dental), partnering with breastfeeding community, linking persons to breastfeeding resources, provide information to persons interested in breastfeeding, work with community of importance of safe sleep, connect families with resources for cribs, education on importance of oral health during pregnancy and working with dental/medical provides.

Other services offered include presumptive eligibility for pregnant women and medical/dental care coordination.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Postpartum Care
Prenatal Care
Dental Screening
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Program for pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people to ensure more babies can celebrate their first birthday (prevent infant mortality), and improve birth outcomes. Clients will receive care from a Registered Nurse and Social Worker to provide pregnancy support.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Home Based Parenting Education

Provides parent support and education. Also provides doula support and monthly parent-child interaction play groups.

Programming includes:

-- Personalized weekly/bi-weekly home visits

-- Prenatal develop and pregnancy education

-- Developmental, social-emotional, hearing, and vision screenings

-- Resource and referral connections

-- Child and parent activities

-- Age-appropriate developmental activities

-- Family centered events

-- Parent lending library

-- New baby welcome gift

-- Home safety materials

-- Breastfeeding support with lactation consultants

Doula Support:

-- Personalized weekly home visits

-- Assistance with the creation of a "birth plan"

-- Support in preparing for labor

-- Education on childbirth and the postpartum period

-- Continuous support during labor and birth

Parent-Child Interaction Play Groups:

-- Participation in activities and story times that promote child development

-- Meet and interact with other parents

-- Create make-it and take-it activities

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Home Based Parenting Education
Childbirth Education
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Pediatric Developmental Assessment

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics

Supplemental food and formula.

Nutrition and health screening and information.

Breastfeeding education.

Referrals to other agencies, doctors, immunization, clinics, food stamps, Medicaid.

Satellite clinics held in Mullen, McCook, Curtis, Ogallala, Imperial, Trenton, Benkelman, and Grant. Call main number for appointments.

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics offer lactation consultants for women experiencing pain or frustration with breastfeeding.

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics
Provides education and support for pregnant and post-partum women to ensure a successful breastfeeding experience. Services based on the WIC Breastfeeding Model for Peer Counseling by utilizing peers to encourage and support mothers to breastfeed their infants via mother-to-mother support. Peer counselors are paid paraprofessionals with WIC.

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics
Winneshiek Medical Center Obstetrics Department offers family-centered care and comprehensive obstetric services. Services include hospital delivery, childbirth education opportunities, lactation consulting (with possible home visits), care seat checks and other health and safety screening, as well as, cultural accommodations.

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General Obstetrics
Child Passenger Safety Seat Inspections
Child Passenger Safety Education
Breastfeeding Support Programs

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Community Wellness Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics
Childhood immunizations, flu shots, education and home visits to teen moms, cancer screening on site, child psychologist on site, breastfeeding assistance, smoking cessation for pregnant women, TB treatment, help finding a doctor or dentist, help with finding medication or other care, Every Women Matters Education and Outreach, Denver Developmental Screening, and case management to reduce lead and other hazard exposure.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Smoking/Vaping Cessation
General Immunization
Home Based Parenting Education
Flu Vaccines
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Physician Referrals