Text4Baby Service Launched Today

Ever have trouble keeping track of taking your vitamins? How about making sure you make (and keep) your doctor's appointments? Get enough exercise? Well this can be even more complicated when you are pregnant or are caring for a new baby!

Today Text4Baby (text BABY or BEBE to 511411) was launched by large coalition of partners -- and it's designed specifically to help pregnant women and new moms. The service is free and sends 3 well thought out text messages to your phone as reminders about: nutrition, health care, flu prevention and treatment, mental health, and more. The service is in English and Spanish.

If you sign up - let me know what you think! You can get much more information on their website, Text4Baby.org.

You can read more about it at the following sites (great publicity!):

• Healthy Baby Campaign Uses Text to Reach Mothers - on the ABCnews website.
• Tech Daily Dose - a public policy, tech website