3rd Baby Shower, health fair offers resources, safety tips for raising healthy babies

YOUNGSTOWN

A major first step toward increasing the likelihood of mothers having healthy babies is to provide them with valuable resources – and nowhere is that truer than in the Mahoning Valley, a health expert says.

“The idea is to bring resources … for expecting and new moms, so they know who provides what’s needed for them so they can have healthy babies,” explained Melvin Harris, a relations specialist with United Healthcare Community Plan of Ohio.

Plenty of such resources and information were on hand for that purpose during Saturday’s third annual Citywide Baby Shower & Community Health Fair at Arlington Heights Recreation Center, 801 Otis St., near downtown.

More than 20 vendors took part in the four-hour fair, which was largely to inform, educate and empower women regarding having healthy infants.

Read more about the event, the resources it provided and the tips it offered to new and prospective moms.