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The globally acclaimed pediatrician who exposed the Flint water crisis in What the Eyes Don't See, now tells the gripping story of how the poorest city in the country became a leader in maternal and pediatric care. Her radical and wildly successful solution to the problem of child poverty: give babies money.

Dr. Hanna was already a bold innovator in pediatric and maternal care before she became internationally famous as the courageous whistleblower who exposed the Flint water crisis. But even as the crisis subsided, her patients--pregnant moms and newborns in the poorest city in the country--were still suffering. She saw it everyday: The moms were exhausted, with dark circles under their eyes; she saw signs of watered down formula as moms tried to stretch their resources; the mothers seemed distracted, anxious, and overwhelmed. Some moms and babies didn't make it to her pediatric center at all -- cancelled appointments were a signal that a mom may have had to choose between work and a critical doctor’s visit that day. A vexing question begins to plague Dr. Mona: why does America force so many of its most vulnerable to start life under the stress of poverty?

Dr. Mona looked into the history of child poverty in America and discovered that there was a time when we almost got it right. In these pages she introduces us to the women of Hull House, the childfree women of the "Old Maids Brigade," and many more who lobbied and organized to reform the country and make America the global leader in infant and maternal health. But where there is progress there is pushback--these innovative matriarchs ran into the opposition of the male dominated American Medical Association, which reoriented our country's relationship to its babies and mothers.

Grounded in the fervent belief that a whole nation can be measured simply by how it treats its babies and bolstered by a history that shows what America is capable of, Dr. Mona, along with a team of experts, activists, parents, and politicians, sets out on a riveting journey to cure child poverty through a simple act: giving money to babies and their caregivers.

Baby Parade is a resolute and optimistic chronicle of Dr. Hanna’s relentless pursuit of justice and care for the most vulnerable. It tells the story of how she built a program that has become a model for the world--it has already expanded well beyond Flint--and paints a vivid and textured portrait of what can happen when someone looks at a social ill and does more than ponder…what if?

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