UnitedHealthcare Hosts Baby Shower at Family Health Center for Moms-to-Be and New Moms

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Mississippi and Family Health Center in Laurel hosted a baby shower for expectant moms and new parents. The baby shower was designed to help expectant moms and new parents with important prenatal and well-baby care resources and information.

Sgt. Shannon Carraway from the Laurel Police Department in Mississippi was one of the speakers at the UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Mississippi Baby Shower where she shared important child car safety tips with new and expectant moms. The Baby Shower gave moms and moms-to-be an opportunity to meet with health experts to get answers to questions about their pregnancies and receive tips for taking care of their babies, including information on prenatal and postpartum care, and child-care safety. (Photo Credit: Bobby Harvison Photography)

Expectant moms and new moms met with health experts to get answers to questions about their pregnancies and receive tips for taking care of their babies, including information on prenatal and postpartum care, and child-care safety. Attendees learned about available well-baby resources, including a demonstration of BabyBlocks®, a free online wellness-incentive program that enables participants to receive email appointment alerts, wellness-related text messages, connect directly with maternity nurses and earn rewards for keeping doctor appointments.

Those in attendance received a free gift bag that includes baby-care items such as diapers, baby wipes and other items. There was also a raffle for parents with door prizes such as a baby bouncer, car seat and other baby-care items.

About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 800,000 physicians and care professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. Globally, UnitedHealthcare serves 45 million people in health benefits and is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.

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