Expecting a New Addition to Your Family?
Family Services Center offers the following program for families who are expecting a new child:
The Prenatal Program for Families is an exciting, up-to-date, proven program that helps parents and their baby start out life with the optimal conditions for a healthy, nurturing prenatal experience.
Parents Increase their Knowledge and Skills
Parents Increase their Knowledge and Skills
- Keeping their bodies and babies healthy
- Nurturing themselves and their partners
- Preventing drug-related birth defects
- Handling stress and anger
- Identifying unhealthy possessive and violent partner relationships
- Understanding the importance of nurturing touch and infant massage
- Handling weight gain and body issues
- Understanding fetal growth and development
- Dealing with physical, social and emotional changes occurring to themselves
- Maintaining a healthy sexual partner relationship
- Using stress relaxation techniques such as affirmations and visualizations
- Encouraging healthy brain development
- Understanding their beliefs and knowledge regarding parenting

