If you plan to continue your pregnancy, it is important that you begin prenatal care with a health care provider ("prenatal" refers to the time before your baby's birth). Quality prenatal care is important to a healthy pregnancy and can reduce the risk of having a low birth-weight baby. Low birth-weight infants (those born weighing five pounds eight ounces or less) are at risk for infant mortality and long-term developmental problems.
If you are concerned that the medical care associated with pregnancy may be too expensive for you to afford, you should know that you might be eligible for Medicaid coverage through the course of your pregnancy and beyond.
If you want to know if you qualify for Medicaid, please call 303-692-2960 from the Denver Metro area or 1-800-359-1991 (toll-free) from elsewhere in Colorado to have a Medicaid application mailed to you free of charge.
