A good turnout is expected Saturday morning for the Mid-Mo Baby Expo at Columbia’s Courtyard by Marriott on Lemone Industrial.
There will be dozens of booths and a diaper changing competition. Boone Health’s Stacie Barker, an event organizer, says there will also be an area set up similar to a room that a mother would deliver her baby in:
“So we’ll have a bed will be there. There will be a crib, there will be some different positioning devices that mom might use while she’s in labor,” Ms. Barker says.
The event will also include seminars on baby first aid.
You’ll also have an opportunity to attend seminars on baby massage at the Mid-Mo Baby Expo. Ms. Barker, the patient care manager at Boone’s labor and delivery unit, tells 939 the Eagle that there will be a physical therapist for the baby massage classes:
“She will help teach families different techniques on how to help calm their baby that might be colicky, just really fussy for whatever season. And the babies really just love it,” she says.
You’ll have a chance to win a stroller system by attending Saturday morning’s event, which is from 8 to noon. Tickets for the Mid-Mo Baby Expo are $10 and you can find more information about the event and tickets here.
Click here to listen to 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth’s full interview with Boone Health’s Stacie Barker: