Right here’s the examine: Greater than 1,000 ladies have been adopted from the third trimester of being pregnant by their youngster’s second birthday.

Within the first group, the management group, moms have been discharged from the hospital with the same old physician’s visits scheduled, nothing else. The second group had instructional booklets mailed to them periodically, with a nurse phone name follow-up. And the third group had the identical booklets with a texting follow-up, fairly than telephone calls.

Each intervention teams had higher outcomes — extra tummy time and fewer display time for his or her infants, extra prone to introduce the suitable meals on the proper time and fewer probably to present a bedtime bottle (which we all know isn’t good due to tooth decay).

Moreover, the intervention teams have been extra prone to have a household meal collectively when the youngsters have been 1 yr previous. Apparently, texting appeared to be nearly as good as a phone name for a follow-up usually.

My spin: Now, take into consideration this: We’re utilizing know-how, telephone and texting in a helpful method to encourage good parenting with no need a mum or dad to return right into a well being care workplace. That is an environment friendly and efficient use of know-how to enhance well being care at an vital time in a toddler’s life.

There are such a lot of naysayers who spout the concept computer systems and know-how have taken away an excessive amount of from medical care. However that is one place the place know-how may very well be used extra — to encourage higher well being for our infants.