Show All Answers

1. How do women learn about text4baby?

Women can learn about text4baby from over 700 partners who have signed up to help promote text4baby. Partners include:

• City and county health departments
• Clinics
• Colleges and universities
• Corporations
• Federal and state government agencies
• Federally qualified health centers
• Head start/early head start programs
• Health delivery networks
• Health plans
• Healthy start programs and coalitions
• Hospitals
• Local and state and national nonprofit organizations
• Professional associations
• Telecommunication companies
• Tribal agencies

You may also learn more by visiting the text4baby website.

2. Who leads text4baby?

Text4baby is an education campaign of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB). HMHB works with a broad range of partners to encourage the women they reach to take advantage of this free service. CDC, as an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is one of over 700 partners supporting text4baby.

3. Are the text messages in English and Spanish?

Yes. The text messages are in English and Spanish. Participants can sign up for text4baby in English by texting BABY to 511411. They can sign up for text4baby in Spanish by texting BEBE to 511411.

4. How long will women receive free text messages?

Text4baby is designed for pregnant women through their pregnancy and the first year of their baby’s life.

To stop receiving texts from the text4Baby service, users simply text the word STOP to 511411 from the same phone they use to get the messages.