Seongbuk-gu, 'Nurse Visit Service' for Families with Children Under 2 Years Old

Operating "Mom's Meeting" for Babies Within 8 Weeks of Birth

Seongbuk-gu, Seoul (Mayor Lee Seung-ro) operates a service where nurses directly visit households with pregnant women and infants under 2 years old. Through this, they manage the health of mothers and babies and provide customized education to boost parents' confidence in childcare.

Seongbuk-gu operates a service where nurses visit the homes of pregnant women and families with infants under the age of two. Provided by Seongbuk-gu.

Started in 2015, the "Seoul Baby Health First Step" project is a program where nurses trained in specialized education related to pregnancy and infants visit families after childbirth. The main services include health management for mothers and babies, breastfeeding education, depression screening, and support for linking with community resources.

Last year, the number of visits totaled 837 (336 households). This corresponds to a visitation rate of 49.4% compared to the number of births in Seongbuk-gu in 2023 (1,696 births), which is a 9.1% increase from the 40.1% visitation rate in 2023.

The visiting nurse service is divided into universal visits and continuous visits. Universal visits are conducted 1 to 4 times per household after childbirth. The main contents include forming a health partnership with the mother, newborn health assessment, enhancing parenting confidence, psychosocial evaluation and counseling for pregnant women, and providing information.

Continuous visits target households identified as high-risk based on social, psychological, and health assessments. These visits occur more than 25 times from before childbirth through postpartum, providing partnership formation, health development, parenting capacity enhancement, and tailored linkage services.

In addition, Seongbuk-gu operates a "Mom's Meeting" for mothers and babies within 8 weeks after childbirth, who are eligible for the "Seoul Baby Health First Step" project. This month, it is held every Wednesday for a total of 5 sessions, helping mothers with similar childbirth periods form networks and receive social support.

The program consists of participatory group activities such as getting to know each other and becoming a mom, learning about the baby, understanding weaning foods according to baby development, infant emergency care education, and baby development and play. This service can be applied for online at the Seoul Pregnancy and Childbirth Information Center, and applications are also accepted at health centers.

Mayor Lee Seung-ro stated, "We will continue to do our best to make Seongbuk-gu a great place to give birth and raise children."

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