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Once Upon a Healthy Baby [Video]

This Saturday at various Once Upon a Child locations in Indianapolis and Carmel, proceeds from their ALL DAY CLEARANCE SALE will go toward Better Indy Babies!  A home-visitation program that helps promote healthier pregnancies in order to have healthier babies and combat Indiana’s low rank – 39th out of 50 – in infant mortality rate!  [...]

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Teen birth rate is increasing?

Indiana has gone an entire decade with decreasing teen birth rates, until now. From 1997-2005, we have seen a decrease in teen pregnancy from 32.1 per 1000 female teens to 20.5 per 1000 female teens.  However, that number rose from ’05 to ’07 and now stands at 21.9. The Indiana Youth Institute sent out an [...]

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