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Maternal and Child Health Links
By Your Side, Pregnancy to 5
From the moment you find out you're expecting until your child turns 5, WIC provides the extra support you deserve to help keep your family healthy. WIC is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
Free Healthy Foods
Get everyday groceries like fresh fruits and vegetables, baby food, milk, eggs, beans, cheese and more.
Breastfeeding Support
Meet one-on-one with staff skilled in breastfeeding support who can give you helpful tips and answer your questions.
Nutrition Education
Get personalized tips on healthy eating, meal planning and resources from nutritionists, dietitians, nurses and other skilled staff.
Health and Community Resources
Get help finding and connecting to medical, dental and mental health care, along with other community-based services.
Breastfeeding Peer Counselors
Breastfeeding Peer Counselors are moms who have breastfed and want to help other moms succeed in nursing their babies, too!
Peer Counselors are here to encourage and to educate-but, more importantly, they are here to connect with new moms, like you, in a special way, for a very good reason.....to help you and your baby.
Breastfeeding peer counselors teach a class to help you learn more about breastfeeding and are also available to provide new mothers with support and advice.
By having our peer counselors to talk or share with, new mothers become more confident and comfortable with learning to breastfeed.
​Please call us for more information 618-263-3873
Family Case Management
Family Case Management is a case management program whose
goal is to promote wellness and healthy lifestyles in income-eligible women, infants, and children. The case management program can help you:
- Find a doctor for prenatal care and family planning
- Find a doctor for your child
- Learn parenting skills necessary to raise a happy, healthy baby
- Assess and provide information about your infant or child's development
- Obtain community programs and services
- Assist in application for a temporary medical card for pregnant women
- Make sure that your home is safe for an infant or child.
Lead Screening
Lead Screening is highly recommended for all children. Preventing lead exposure in children is important for a healthy life. Exposure to lead can happen from breathing workplace air or dust, eating lead-based paint chips or drinking contaminated water. Children can be exposed from eating lead-based paint chips or playing in contaminated soil. Lead can damage the nervous system, kidneys, and reproductive system.
