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Government launches text and e-mail advice for new parents

The Government has launched a new digital service for parents-to-be and new mothers and fathers to help them prepare for and look after their baby, along with its parenting class voucher pilot.

The new NHS Information Service for Parents will give mothers and fathers ‘advice they can trust’, covering a wide range of issues related to staying healthy in pregnancy, preparing for birth and looking after their baby.

Those who sign up to the service will be sent NHS-approved advice to their phone or email, including links to specially commissioned videos with midwives demonstrating practical advice such as how to bathe a baby.

Launching the service, Prime Minister David Cameron said, ‘Parents are nation-builders. It's through love and sheer hard work that we raise the next generation with the right values. That’s why this government is doing everything possible to support parents.

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