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Starting next month, families in California will get hundreds of free diapers for their newborns in a new state initiative.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s new: The state is partnering with Baby2Baby<\/a>, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, to send 400 free diapers home with families when they\u2019re discharged from the hospital. Any baby born in a participating hospital would be eligible, regardless of income.<\/p>\n Which hospitals? State officials say the program will be first prioritized in hospitals that serve a large number of Medi-Cal patients, but said there isn\u2019t a current list of participating hospitals. A spokesperson for the state\u2019s Department of Health Care Access and Information said once hospitals begin to opt-in, a list will be available on Baby2Baby\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Raising kids?<\/p>\n Our Early Childhood newsletter, focused on raising kids ages 0-5, is your place to get reads and resources on the topics most important to your family. <\/p>\n Why now: Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s office said the program is aimed at easing the financial strain of raising a family. Newborns can need up to 12 diapers a day<\/a> \u2014 and families spend<\/a> about $1,000 on diapers in the first year of a baby\u2019s life, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: Starting next month, families in California will get hundreds of free diapers for their newborns in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[107864,48,52,51,47,50,49,128905],"class_list":["post-311481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-diapers","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-newborns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}