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Maternal Infant Health Program

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Personal and Family Health
906-635-3572
What is the MIHP?

  • MIHP is a Home Visiting Program for pregnant women and Infants with Medicaid insurance.

  • MIHP supports healthy pregnancies, and healthy babies.

What are the benefits of MIHP?

  • Babies born to moms in the MIHP are healthier

  • Families in MIHP learn how their babies are growing

  • Moms get help with breastfeeding, formula feeding, developmental questions, concerns, and other nutritional questions.

How does MIHP help pregnant mothers and their babies?
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Pregnant women in MIHP will get help with access to transportation, WIC, and childbirth or parent education classes. Women will also get home visits from a health care professional (like a nurse or a social worker). These health care professionals will:

  • Help with prenatal care

  • Answer questions about being pregnant, labor, and delivery

  • Answer questions about caring for your baby

  • Help with getting food or a place to live

  • Help you learn about buying, fixing, and eating healthy foods

  • Help with health problems that could affect your pregnancy like diabetes, asthma, high-blood pressure, depression, or anxiety. 

  • Help with changes that you decide to make to be healthy such as quitting/cutting down on tobacco, alcohol, or drugs.

  • Answer questions about family planning (birth control)

  • Connects you with community services like childbirth education classes, resources that give out baby items for free, the WIC food program, heat, and electricity.

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