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January 9, 2007 Contact: Presbyterian Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Media Cell: (704) 617-2631 |
- Preparing for Parenting These classes give parents the opportunity to ask questions and prepare for life's changes with a baby. The class includes bonding, parenting styles and scheduling techniques.
- Parenting Your Newborn Interactive class includes development, play and sleep techniques and baby blues.
- Parenting Your Infant This class for new parents provides hands-on experience needed to parent your growing/changing infant, including feeding, sleeping, creative play ideas, developmental milestones/infant development, baby-proofing and parent coping skills. Participants should enroll in this class when baby is two months or older.
- Mom's Support Group Join this group of other mothers with infants up to seven months old to help ease the transition of adding a baby to your family. The groups meet at various locations throughout the Charlotte area.
Presbyterian Healthcare is affiliated with Novant Health, a non-profit healthcare system serving 3.5 million people in 33 counties reaching from southern Virginia to northern South Carolina, and along the southeastern coast of North Carolina. Presbyterian consists of physician clinics and five hospitals: Presbyterian Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital Matthews, Presbyterian Hospital Huntersville, Presbyterian Orthopaedic Hospital and Presbyterian Hemby Children's Hospital.
The hospital system is recognized as a leader in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular, cancer, orthopaedic and women's health conditions. Novant Health and Presbyterian were named winners of the 2004 Codman Award, presented by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, for excellence in improving the quality and safety of healthcare.
