Information for Parents of Newborns
According to Texas Law, Physicians, Certified Nurse Midwives, Hospitals, and Birthing Centers that provide prenatal care to pregnant women during gestation or at delivery will provide them women with information on immunizations, newborn screening, postpartum depression, and shaken baby syndrome.
Umbilical Cord Blood Banking
2007 80th Regular Session HB 709 requires physicians (and other people permitted by law to attend a pregnant woman during gestation or at delivery of an infant) to provide the woman with the Umbilical Cord Blood Banking brochure before the third trimester of the woman’s pregnancy or as soon as reasonably feasible.
Brochure in English: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/mch/Publications/6-73%20umbilical%20brochure%20FINAL.pdf
Brochure in Spanish: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/mch/Publications/umbilical%20spanish.pdf