Forgot How Old your baby should be to get his first shots? We didn't.

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Sometimes I just need a reminder.  Actually I need constant reminders.  It's so easy to forget to do assignments or make it to appointments on time, so I am often setting up reminders for myself up in my phone, or getting reminder emails from my professors that may in part have saved my grade. Expecting mothers may need a little help to; in fact I would imagine that I would need A LOT of help.  And now they can get it.  "Text for Baby" - a completely free, and completely mobile info service founded by Johnson & Johnson is becoming popular already with 100, 000 mothers regitered for the messages coming to their cell phones with help for them through out the 9 [on average] months of their pregnancy plus the year following the birth of their beautiful child.  Mothers or expectant mothers will be provided with a great deal of valuable information like "immunizations, nutrition, oral health and child development as well as toll-free numbers for health services" ("WowElle").

The real plus to a program like this is that so many people have cell phones now.  Even if other types of technology are still expensive beyond reason, cell phones can still be seen popping up in lower income areas, perhaps because they are more of a necessity to life in the 21st century than a mere novelty.  Because of their presence EVERYWHERE mobile phones are being used more and more in the health sphere and as a public health student I can say I am quite glad; information is just looking to be spread and now there is a form of technology in most women's hands at most times of the day so that knowledge can be rendered asap!  So now thanks to this service mother's can have a connect to these tidbits which may include the answer to just the question they were waiting to ask.

Check out the articles on "Text for Baby" here and here.

"The free, groundbreaking text4baby program in US plans to reach one million moms." WowElle.      WowElle, 11 Nov 2010. Web. 11 Nov 2010. <http://wowelle.com/2010/11/10/the-free-groundbreaking-text4baby-program-in-us-plans-to-reach-one-million-moms/>.