Are you signed up for Text4baby? If not, you’re missing out on a valuable service for you and your baby.

Health Partners Plans has teamed up with Text4baby to send you important health information right. Text4baby sends personalized messages about upcoming appointments and helpful information about your baby directly to you. There is also an app that provides additional information about your baby’s development, pregnancy, child care tips and more.

Text4baby is a FREE service of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.* To start getting free text messages to help you through your pregnancy and your baby’s first year, text BABY to 511411 (or BEBE for Spanish).

For more information, call the Baby Partners program at 1-866-500-4571.

* Participating carriers include Alltel, Assurance Wireless, AT&T, Boost Mobile, Cellular South, Cellcom, Centennial Cellular, Cincinnati Bell, Cricket, Metro PCS, N-Telos, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Wireless, and Virgin Mobile USA. Always check with your carrier first to confirm participation in the free service.