Community Nurse Visits program is now available

CLAREMONT —Community Nurse Visits is a pilot program of TLC Family Resource Center funded by the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation and is free to all pregnant women in Sullivan County regardless of their socio-economic status.

The Community Nurse Visits program is an excellent resource for businesses in the area.

This is a unique opportunity for pregnant women to sit down, put up their feet, and relax while they chat one-on-one with a community nurse who specializes in maternal health. The two free visits will be made once in the third trimester and once postpartum—at the TLC office or in your home. The visits include no red tape, applications, or reporting.

There is no curriculum, the visits are designed to be relaxed, casual and driven by mom. Questions from mom can include, but are not limited to, labor and delivery, postpartum depression, recovering from pregnancy and balancing life and personal needs, breastfeeding, sleep issues, immunizations, building attachments, preparing to return to work, and child care.

The visits will be conducted by Karen Jameson, a registered nurse with an M.Ed. She has 15 years of nurse home visiting experience and is also trained in lactation. The visits will not include a health evaluation of the mother or baby.

For businesses, this is an excellent resource to share with staff that may be pregnant or have a pregnant family member. You get to know you’re providing staff with the benefit of getting quality assistance from a registered nurse as they near birth and in the weeks following birth, regardless of how many pregnancies they have had, with no cost to the business or your staff.

For more information about the program, please visit www.tlcfamilyrc.org/community-

visiting-nurse.html. If you would be interested in signing up for a visit or would like to receive brochures to share with staff, please contact Jameson at [email protected] or (603) 542-1848 Extension 320.