New Mom and Baby Visits

To help keep yourself and your new baby healthy, a Public Health Nurse is available to visit your home and provide teaching and guidance for you and your baby.  Education in growth and development is provided, along with the following:

• Home visits during pregnancy
• Breastfeeding and bottle feeding instructions
• Bathing of infant
• Circumcision care
• Care of infant’s cord
• Temperature taking/when to call the doctor
• Well child care
• Lead testing
• Evaluate infant’s reflexes
• Immunization schedule and vaccine information
• SIDS/”Back to Sleep”
• Early Intervention Program
• Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)
• Postpartum follow up care, including screening and education for postpartum depression

Breastfeeding Services At No Cost To You!

Provided by Holly Pavlin, our Maternal Child Health Nurse and Certified Lactation Counselor, including:

• Phone or in-home visits
• Breastfeeding advice:  positioning, sore breasts, latching, infant growth, and more
• Resources for breastfeeding and support services

Call us today at (518) 719-3600 to speak with our nurse.

Breastfeeding Resources

Alight Center offices in Hudson and Catskill – (518) 822-9008

La Leche League – (518) 392-5854

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) – (518) 943-9082

Columbia Memorial Hospital Fresh Start Breastfeeding Support Services at Women’s Health Center – (518) 828-1400

Provider Resources

Greene County Public Health Department has been collaborating with the March of Dimes to incorporate the Implicit ICC Model with Greene County Providers.