by First Year Cleveland | Aug 12, 2023 | Press Release
Posted June 12, 2020 in Press Releases OWN provides emotional and mental support to women and men who are experiencing pregnancy, infant loss, and early stages of parenting CLEVELAND – As part of the ongoing efforts to raise awareness regarding infant...
by First Year Cleveland | Aug 4, 2023 | FYC News and Post
Cuyahoga County has one of the highest rates of prenatal care in the state — yet, this area also has one of the worst infant mortality rates, and racial disparities contribute to this alarming statistic. Many believe that racial disparities in infant mortality...
by First Year Cleveland | Aug 1, 2023 | News
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Infant mortality rates continue to decline in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, but the racial disparities in the statistics remain stark. In 2021, Black babies in Cleveland were more than twice as likely to die in the first year of their lives as white...
by First Year Cleveland | Aug 1, 2023 | News
Six-week-old Walter Bryant Malloy was born seven weeks early by emergency caesarean delivery in Baltimore due to a condition called placenta previa, which can cause life-threatening blood loss during delivery. He weighed three pounds, 13 ounces at birth, and spent...
by First Year Cleveland | Aug 1, 2023 | News
A printout of the Ohio Senate’s 9,198-page, two-year state budget plan sits in front of Senate President Matt Huffman, left, on the morning of June 15, hours before the Senate passed its version of the bill. The Senate excised many pro-family and pro-child...