Rotterdam comes with parent mentor

rotterdam - The city of Rotterdam is a 'mentor mother'. This experienced mother should expectant mothers who need a helping hand, assist in a healthy pregnancy and a good preparation for the birth. Allows the municipality will try to avoid any incipient problems in parents and their child.

The infant mortality rate in the city of Rotterdam was a long time above the national average. Recent years, which, however, decreased from 11.5 per thousand to 8.4 per thousand. This has halved the gap with the average in the Netherlands.,, Those findings are positive and make the same time we want to commit ourselves even more to give every child a solid start in Rotterdam, '' said Alderman Hugo de Jonge (and youth care).

Still get this year fifty mothers guidance, from 2017, these are a hundred annually.