BEAUMONT HOSPITAL, ROYAL OAK HOSTS SEVENTH ANNUAL BABY FAIR

Brian Bierley (radio/TV)bbierley@beaumonthospitals.com              
Bob Ortlieb (online)rortlieb@beaumonthospitals.com
Ilene Wolff (print)iwolff@beaumonthospitals.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Seventh annual "Beaumont Baby Fair," with displays, information, prizes and mini- classes on comfort measures in labor, dad caring for baby, what to do if your child is choking and more.

Saturday, April 19, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Beaumont Hospital
South Tower Concourse
3601 W. Thirteen Mile Road (west of Woodward Avenue)
Royal Oak

No charge.  Call Christine Purtell, R.N., manager of Mother Baby Care at Beaumont, Royal Oak, at 248-898-6366 for more information.

With more than 6,000 births there in 2007, Beaumont Hospital knows a thing or two about babies.

Find out what they know about baby health, postpartum and parenting concerns at the seventh annual "Beaumont Baby Fair!" Festivities are scheduled for Saturday, April 19, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., in the Beaumont South Tower Concourse, 3601 W. Thirteen Mile Road (west of Woodward Avenue), Royal Oak. Plenty of convenient, on-site parking is available at no charge.

Planned are mini-classes on: the benefits of breastfeeding; infant signing; dad caring for baby; adjusting to parenthood; relief of choking in children and infants; comfort measures in labor; and infant massage. Organizers will draw hourly for prizes.

Participants can also get information and answers to their questions in an informal environment at vendor tables by:

• Abbott Laboratories, Ross Products Division (baby formula)
• Angela Maynerd Glew, Michigan SAFE KIDS Coalition (car seat safety)
• Discovery Toys
• Mead Johnson Nutritionals (baby formula)
• Medela® (breast pumps)
• Oakland County Health Department

And at tables staffed by representatives from Beaumont's:

• Family Affair store (baby items including hard-to-find preemie necessities, and nursing bra fittings)
• Community Health Education department (pre- and post-natal classes)
• award-winning Parenting Program

Call Christine Purtell, R.N., manager of Mother Baby Care at Beaumont, Royal Oak, at 248-898-6366 for more information.  No registration is required.

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