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Baby Boom: Brooklyn Hospital Delivers 74 Babies In 2 Days

Lisa — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:41:15 +0000

An unexplained baby boom left nurses at a Brooklyn hospital swamped and doctors scratching their heads last week after a record 74 newborns were delivered in just 48 hours.

The huge number of arrivals filled every one of the birthing center’s 60 beds — forcing Maimonides Medical Center to rush in off-duty staff and open an extra medical wing to deal with the overflow.

“It was incredible,” said the Borough Park hospital’s spokeswoman, Eileen Tynion.

“Our veteran staff members tell stories about seeing sudden surges of babies being born at the same time, but nothing like this.

“Once or twice every year, we see 65 babies born over 48 hours. This many has never been seen before, and there was nothing we could determine that caused it.”

Moms-to-be started turning up in large numbers Tuesday morning, said Tynion.

Hospital chiefs ordered a first-floor intensive care unit which has been closed last fall to be re-opened after every bed of the fourth-floor maternity ward was filled.

“Somehow, everybody got the care they needed,” said Tynion.

Though the rush had slowed, the baby boom continued yesterday, as the birth total since Tuesday afternoon reached 97. The hospital usually handles around 20 deliveries a day.

Closings of maternity wards at other area hospitals has increased pressure on Maimonides, which has the borough’s biggest and busiest delivery suite.

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Another Baby Arrives On An Airplane!

Lisa — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:05:23 +0000

Babies will come whenever they want even if their mom is on an airplane in the middle of the ocean…

An Indian woman was lucky enough Wednesday to have not one but three doctors to help her deliver a baby boy on a flight between Hong Kong and Adelaide.

The plane made an unscheduled landing in the far-north city of Darwin early Wednesday.

A spokesman for Royal Darwin Hospital told national broadcaster ABC that the six-week premature baby was healthy and weighed 2.7 kilograms.

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Ricki Lake Defends Documentary

Lisa — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:03:41 +0000

Ricki Lake responds to physicians groups that have singled her out for bringing attention to at-home childbirth.

The 39-year-old former talk-show host was called out in a recent statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that says the home is not the safest setting for having a baby.

In her film The Business of Being Born, a documentary about the maternity care system that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Lake is shown giving birth in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment to her second son Owen, who turns 7 on Wednesday.

The ACOG statement, supported in a resolution Tuesday by the American Medical Association, said, “There has been much attention in the media by celebrities having home deliveries,” citing a Today Show headline that read “Ricki Lake takes on the baby birthing industry: Actress and former talk show host shares her at-home delivery in her new film.”

“It’s scary that both (the ACOG and the AMA) have sort of targeted me,” Lake told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “And, you know, I’m all about choice. This is not unlike the abortion issue. I am pro-choice when it comes to childbirth and choices in birth. Home birth was around long before hospitals were taking over — and I just think women need to know (the information) so that they can make the best choice for them.”

The AMA resolves in the statement to support state legislation “that helps ensure safe deliveries and healthy babies by acknowledging that the safest setting” is a hospital, connected birthing center or other approved facility.

I disagree with both associations. This documentary responsibly shows expectant mothers alternative options that are supervised by trained professionals. Its not like she is promoting free birthing…

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Photo via thebusinessofbeingborn.com