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UKIAH, Calif. – Ukiah has welcomed its first baby of 2013.
Jose Castaneda, a healthy baby boy, was born at 2:22 a.m. on New Year’s Day in the Family Birth Center at Ukiah Valley Medical Center.
Baby Jose, born to Guillermina Ramirez of Ukiah, is welcomed by his five older siblings, all born at UVMC.
Jose was delivered by Karen Crabtree, M.D., and weighed in at 8 pounds, 10 ounces.
Ms. Ramirez extended a special thank you to Dr. Crabtree and Eliza Thompson, RN, for their exceptional care of both mom and baby.
Each year there are an estimated 440,000 babies born around the world on New Year’s Day.
As the first baby of the year, UVMC provided baby Jose and his family with his first case of disposable diapers, 240 of them to be exact.
Nurses from the Family Birth Center also pooled their resources to provide a stroller, high chair and gift basket full of newborn necessities for the family.
Teresa Keffeler, RN, made a “Cat in the Hat” baby blanket and the Ukiah Quilters Guild donated a beautiful quilt.
The Family Birth Center had a record number of births, 910, during 2012. All birthing suites were renovated with new paint, window coverings, soft lighting, flat screen TVs, labor beds, bassinettes, glider rockers and sleeper sofas.
In addition to the facility itself, staff at the Family Birth Center provide childbirth education classes, lactation consultations and tours.
You can take a virtual tour of the Family Birth Center at http://bit.ly/UVMCFBC .
With its central location and state-of-the-art facility, the Family Birth Center is attracting new obstetricians and gynecologists to the greater Ukiah area.
Doctors Jessica Hutchins and Seema Nayak are both recent additions to the Women’s Health Center at the Ukiah Valley Rural Health Center and are accepting new patients. For an appointment, please call 707-463-7652.
The Family Birth Center is located in UVMC at 275 Hospital Drive in Ukiah. For more information about the classes provided, please call 707-463-7550.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Rebecca Katerina Barnes-Daza has the distinct honor of being the first baby born in 2013 at Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s Family Birth Center.
Rebecca Katerina weighed in at 10 pounds, measured 22.5 inches long and was born on Thursday, Jan. 3, at 8:40 a.m. to parents Martha A. Daza and Bobbei Barnes.
The proud family received a basket full of gift items from the Family Birth Center commemorating their baby’s arrival.
The basket includes many necessities, as well as a quilt and crocheted blanket handmade and donated by Sherrie Loewen of Lakeport and Elaine Merchant of Clearlake Oaks.
In addition, the Lake County Office of Education and the Lake County Task Force are proud to present the Barnes-Daza family with the first of 100 Imagination Library membership certificates sponsored by Sutter Lakeside Hospital.
Members of Imagination Library receive a book in the mail every month, for 12 months, to read, enjoy and keep.
“Imagination Library will be a great addition in the homes of these families. We want to be among the first to welcome Baby Barnes-Daza,” said Superintendent of Lake County Schools Wally Holbrook.
“Every baby born in the Birth Center is special, but New Year’s babies really remind us of new beginnings,” said Jackie Rad, R.N.C.,M.S.N., Family Birth Center clinical coordinator.
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