News Release                                                

                                                     For Immediate Release

                                                                                                                       March 14, 2007

Quilt Donation Supports Healthy Infant Development

Kincardine – The Kincardine Quilters Guild donated 30 handcrafted quilts to the Healthy Babies Healthy Children program. These specially designed quilts are for distribution to local families in this program. The quilts encourage parents to promote Tummy Time with their babies. Tummy Time while a baby is awake helps to develop healthy upper body strength and to prevent baby flathead. Flathead, also known as plagiocephaly, does not affect how a baby’s brain develops but may affect the appearance of the child’s head. Parent Support Workers will use these special quilts as a surface mat for babies to promote Tummy Time. 

Krista Jones, Parent Support Worker, and Doris Galbraith, Public Health Nurse, with the Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program were present to accept the quilts. The Kincardine Quilters Guild hopes other local quilter groups will take up making these quilts as a project for their members.

For further information call Public Health at 519-376-9420 or visit our web site at www.publichealthgreybruce.on.ca.

For more information:

Krista Jones,

Parent Support Worker

Healthy Babies Healthy Children, Family Health

Grey Bruce Health Unit

519-881-1920 1-800-821-1920 ext. 228