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Show New 'Great Beginnings Club started BOUNTIFUL Lakeview ? Hospital and local businesses have teamed up to help expectant parents get ready for the new little one at home by offering expectant parents membership into the "Great Beginnings" Begin-nings" Club. Club membership will entitle the parents to discounts at participating merchants and information about Lakeview Hospital's maternity services, ser-vices, including invitations to prenatal classes and tours of maternity mater-nity services. "As all new parents know, having a baby is an expensive proposition prop-osition ' said Susan Muldoon, hospital spokeswoman, "We came up with this program to try to ease the financial burden on expectant parents. While the hospital has the resources to provide necessary prenatal education and emotional support to the prospective parents, it does not have the ability to help provide newborns with creature comforts, so we enlisted the support of area businesses." Those businesses currently participating par-ticipating in Great Beginnings include in-clude Somebody's Mother, a maternity ma-ternity and children's clothing store j in the ZCMI Center, Imperial Diaper Service; Children's Sampler, a 5-Points Mall store that carries discount samples of infant and children's clothing; and Malibu Body Shop, a fitness center in Bountiful. The expectant parents will enjoy I various discounts and surprise gifts I from the sponsoring merchants. Not only will they receive discounts on much needed maternity and baby clothing, they will also receive in- centives to participate in important pre- and post-natal exercise and en- vironmentally sound diaper service. Lakeview Hospital's maternity services include free childbirth education edu-cation classes offering information on fetal development, prenatal exercise, ex-ercise, conventional delivery, caesarean delivery, and natural childbirth for the first-time parent. In addition, a Kangaroo Kapers class is held to help siblings deal with a new baby in the house. Parenting classes are held periodically to educate parents in their role as the most important teachers their children will ever have. The Great Beginnings members will receive a membership card that will be good until one month after their due date (individual sponsors I have a right to change that date). To j sign up for Great Beginnings or for more information about Great Beginnings andor Lakeview Hospital maternity services, call 299-2507. |