(KUTV) — Intermountain Medical Center’s NICU has a new set of visitors—volunteer cuddlers. This is part of a new program providing the smallest patients in the hospital some extra comfort care. “They ...

Rhode Island will create a "Baby Bonds" program for newborns in low-income families enrolled in RI Works. The program will provide $3,000 bonds for eligible newborns, projected to grow to ...

The Connecticut legislature made history in 2021 when it became the first in the country to pass a baby bonds program, which would invest money on behalf of children born into lower-income families.

Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services offers the only Mother and Baby program of its kind in the state, and they're celebrating 10 years of helping new moms with postpartum and other mood ...

It’s a stubborn and troubling reality of child welfare: generations of families often end up involved with state care in a cycle passed down from one parent to the next. Rhode Island Family Court ...

Gov. Ned Lamont with children at the Bridge Family Resource Center in West Hartford after an update on the baby bonds program. Credit: MARK PAZNIOKAS / CTMIRROR.ORG Each of the 7,810 babies born to ...

(Bloomberg) -- Massachusetts should invest in baby bonds to help narrow the racial wealth gap, according to a task force convened by the state treasurer to consider such a program. Baby bonds are ...

The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) helps hospitals give breastfeeding mothers the information, confidence, and skills they need to successfully start and continue breastfeeding their babies.

Sen. Patricia Billie Miller, D-Stamford, addressed the upcoming rollout of Connecticut's new baby bonds program, as Treasurer Erick Russell and Gov. Ned Lamont look on. Credit: Andrew Brown / CT ...