Hays Area Children’s Center

Families are encouraged to grab their strollers and head downtown for the inaugural Baby Care Street Fair in historic downtown Hays. The event, sponsored by Hays Interagency Coordinating Council’s Hospital to Home Committee, seeks to provide parents with helpful resources, and at the same time offer a no-cost evening of family fun.

The event will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, on Main Street between 10th and 12th streets.

Activities will include balloon animals and live music.

There will be a car seat safety check lane, and a lactation lounge for nursing mothers in Hays Arts Council’s annex at 1010 Main.

Several community agencies and businesses will have tables at the event offering helpful parenting resources or family activities. These agencies include Avery’s Birth Doula Services, Bella Luna Boutique, Early Childhood Connections, Hays Area Children’s Center, Hays Medical Center Lactation Clinic, Hays Medical Center Pediatrics, Hays Medical Center Women’s Center, Hays Public Library, Hays Recreation Commission, Healthy Start and La Leche League.

This event is scheduled in conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week 2015. This year’s campaign strives to raise awareness regarding breastfeeding rights of working women. For more information about that campaign, visit www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org.

The Baby Care Street Fair also coincides with the Downtown Hays Market, which will be open from 5:45 to 7:45 p.m. in the 10th Street parking lot between Main and Fort.