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There’s A Baby Boom In Perry!
BY TERRY WOOD
A ‘baby-boom’ in Perry
and Houston County?
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EDWARDS-HARPER
fe S Downtown Perry
Houston County Hospital
Administrator Max
Poole, Nursing Super
visor Brenda Rush, and
Hospital Reports Record Number Os Births
their statistics, it's true.
“Apparently this is
going on across the
country,” says Poole,
-i ‘‘but we’re just ahead of
the situation. During my
first year as Ad
ministrator in 1973, 100
babies were born here.
During this 1979 calendar
year, over 300 have been
born. According to
national statistics the
number of babies being
born across the country
are also on the increase.”
The month of October
1979 holds the record at
the Perr y-Houston
County Hospital for the
most babies born in one
month since the hospital
opened in 1969. Poole
compares the months of
October 1976, 1977, 1978,
and 1979 as evidence of
the occurring rise in
births in Perry. “In
October 1976, there were
18 babies born here,” he
notes. “There were 22
born in October 1977, 24 in
October 1978 and 43 in
October 1979. A similar
increase has occurred in
Warner Robins, Macon,
and other surrounding
counties.”
“It could be caused by
a number of things,” says
Nursing Supervisor
Brenda Rush. “For one
ft thing, more people are
\ moving into the area,
v Also, the fact that the Pill
<r has been linked to cancer
has caused many women
t to stop taking it, relying
r on more ineffective birth
- control. There are also
- more teenage
t pregnancies than ever
r before. Mrs. Rush noted
P that teenage pregnancies
t accounted for ap-
P proximately one -third of
n the births at the Perry
v hospital during 1979.
E: “If there is a baby
y boom,” she continues,
5 “we are completely
£ equipped to handle it
“ here.”
£ Winnie the Pooh and
*■ other Pooh characters
E line the baby-blue walls
\ of the newly painted and
Z renovated nursery. The
*■ latest in nursery
E equipment, including
£ heart monitors and
• Cavitron warmers have
|v recently been added.
~ In one corner of the
£ nursery, identical twins
* are sleeping soundly; in
r’ the opposite corner,
k pediatrician Dr. Rahmon
•} examines a new baby
girl, and from
somewhere among the 13
babies occupying the
nursery today comes an
urgent cry.
As nursery aide, Mrs.
Methodist
Women Mark
Anniversary
The United Methodist
Women of the Americus
District held a tea
Saturday, December 15
from 3-5 p.m. in the
Fellowship Hall of the
Perry United Methodist
Church. This affair was
in celebration of the 100th
anniversary of the
women’s organization of
the South Georgia con
ference which had its
beginning in Perry
December 15, 1879.
This observance was
planned by Mrs. Berkeley
Blackman, of Hawkin
sville, president of the
Americus District
U.M.W., and Mrs. Dan
Britton, president of the
Perry U.M.W. These two
leaders received the
guests at the entrance to
the Hall.
Assisting in en
tertaining were Mrs. Ted
Perfect, Mrs. T.H. Ur
srey, Mrs. Jack Davis,
Mrs. Addis Colvin, Mrs.
W.E. Marshall, and Mrs.
John L. Hodges.
Mrs. Steve Pace served
the wassail from a silver
punch bowl. Assisting in
entertaining were Mrs.
Richard Talton, Mrs.
M.M. Dean, Mrs. H.A.
Aultman, and Mrs,
Woodrow Gilbert.
The guests were
registered and given
name tags by Miss
Frances Couey and Mrs.
W.K. Whipple. The
Christmas name tags
were made by Miss
Frances Hall.
Acting as hostesses in
the Historical Room were
Mrs. Walter Gray, Jr.,
Mrs. Max Poole, and
Mrs. Ed Weaver, wearing
centennial dresses.
The Fellowship Hall
was attractive with its
Christmas decorations.
The tea table overlaid
with a green cloth held an
arrangement of red
carnations and red
lighted tapers as its
center piece and platters
of party foods including
invididual cake squares
Garden
Council
Meets
Meeting at Flint
Electric, members of the
Warner Robins Garden
Council met recently to
install the new officers.
As president for the
coming year will be B-G
Harless, Rosewood
Garden Club LaVerne
Williams, Bud and
Bloom, vice president:
Secy Martha Bacon also
of Bud and Bloom with
Judy Johnson of Robins
as treasurer.
Installing officer, Anne
Hancock, a member of
the Board of the Garden
Clubs of Georgia,
presented each with a
carnation representing
one of the top awards in a
Standard Flower Show.
Ms. Hancock is a
Master Flower Show
judge and a member of
Rosewood Garden Club.
Ms. Harless, president of
Rosewood is an ac
credited Flower Show
judge as is Ms. Williams.
Council is making plans
for the annual Spring
Flower Show to be held in
the Mall in mid-April.
The scheduling com
mittee is considering
"Big Bands" among
other themes for the
show.
Grace Sledge makes her
way to the hungry baby,
she explains, “I’ve been
here 7 years and I’ve
never seen anything like
it. Especially the month
topped with the figure,
“100”, in icing.
The display table held
many items of historical
interest including posters
of pictures, facts, and
figures which revealed
the history of the South
Georgia Conference
Women’s work.
The Americus District
U.M.W. has 58 local units
and pledged $22,800.00 to
missions in 1979. The
South Georgia Con
ference has 455 units in
nine districts and their
total pledge to missions
this year was $241,200.00.
The pastors who at
tended the tea were Rev.
John B. Carroll,
superintendent of the
Americus District; Rev.
James Davis, of
Pineview Finleyson
charge; Rev. Thomas H.
Johnson and Rev. J.B.
Smith, of the Perry
church.
Included in the women
guests were Mrs. Carlton
Carruth, of Douglas,
conference president,
and Miss Ina Randitt, of
Cochran, representative
from the Women’s
Division, and former
president of the South
Georgia Conference
U.M.W., and several
district officers.
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of October when we had
to bring in extra help. But
I don’t mind,” she says,
“because it just means
I’ll have more babies to
love.”
Mrs. Sledge has a
reputation for loving and
caring for the newborns
as if they were her own,
says employees of the
hospital. “She talks and
sings to them, is very
maternal towards them
and alert to their needs,”
says Mrs. Rush. “Any
mother can rest assured
that her new baby is
receiving the best of care
here at our nursery.”
“We are continually
increasing and improving
the quality of our
equipment to better care
for mothers and babies,”
says Poole. Our OB
facilities are excellent
and the assistants are
experienced and well
trained.”
“We are now con
sidered a top primary
nursery,” he adds, “and
only the babies con
sidered high risk have
had to be transferred.”
“If a baby is born with
a severe respiratory
problem, a birth defect,
or needing a complete
blood exchange,” ex
plains nurse Rush, “he
would have to be tran
sferred to a hospital that
could provide secondary
or third level care. But
very few have had to be
transferred during the
last few years. It seems
that women are taking
better care of themselves
during their pregnancies,
and the babies are being
born healthier.”
There seems to be a
hospital debate as to the
ratio of boy-girl births
this year at the Perry-
Houston County Hospital.
“In general con
versation,” says Max
Poole, "it seems that
more boys are being born
overall than girls here,
and in other hospitals.”
Mrs. Sledge disagrees.
“The girls are definitely
outnumbering the boys.”
She says. “In October, 75
percent of the births were
girls.”
Whether boys out
number girls, or vise
versa, doesn’t seem to
matter to the many
visitors coming to view
the newborns. “Our
nursery has become a
major attraction for
visitors to the hospital,”
says Poole. Even towns
people come out oc
casionally to see the
babies.”
Tp^mi
Offering a thanks and
hoping that the beauty of the Holy Birth
will surround you at Christmastide.
Leiqk Codoftfo
Tours of the hospital
are offered to any
mother-to-be who may be
considering the Perry-
Houston County Hospital,
says Brenda Rush. OB
assistants will guide her
through the obstetrics
department, including
the labor and delivery
rooms, the hospital
rooms and the nursery.
She will also be in
troduced to the nurses
and aides who will assist
her during her stay.
These tours are being
offered daily. For more
information contact
Brenda Rush, Supervisor
of Nursing.