Community-based program helps moms in poorer countries improve babies’ brain health

A program of facilitated, community-based groups to teach women and their partners from pregnancy until the baby is one about nutrition, sensitive caregiving, play, first aid, health and avoiding family violence has been shown to improve the brains of these women’s children. The children have significantly better cognitive, language and motor development at the age of two than those whose mothers had usual health care.

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