Fort St John, B.C.- In just a few days, all areas of Northern Health  will be anxiously wating to here which family will  welcome the first baby  of the New Year.

2014  will also se the arrival of a new clinic in Fort St John, one that is designed to  ensure all babies are as healthy as  possible.

That region will see the opening of a new pr-natal clinic, which will be up and running  to help all new moms to be.

Scheduled to open on the 6th of January, the  clinic will  offer  a variety of services  aimed at ensuring moms and their  babies are as healthy as possible.  Moms will have access to  social workers,  mental health  and addictions  experts, dietitians,  an obstetrician and a breasfeeding consulatant.

Expectant women will be  directed to  a new Prenatal Clinic instead of regular visits to their family Doctor it is a move that will  be especially  helpful to those pregnant women who don't have a family doctor.

Each year,  between 620 and 650 babies are  born  in Ft. St. John, that birth rate is  well above the  average for communities of similar size.