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Benefits

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WIC saves lives and improves the health of nutritionally at-risk women, infants and children by

  • Reducing fetal deaths and infant mortality.
  • Reducing low birth weight rates and increasing the duration of pregnancy.
  • Improving the growth of nutritionally at-risk infants and children.
  • Decreasing the incidence of iron deficiency anemia in children.
  • Improving the dietary intake of pregnant and postpartum women and improves weight gain in pregnant women.
  • Helping children get ready to start school: children who receive WIC benefits demonstrate improved intellectual development.
  • Improves children’s diets.
  • Receiving prenatal care earlier.
  • Increasing the likelihood of children having a regular source of medical care and more up to date immunizations.