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...Nazareth, based in Louisville, Ky., and, at 51, became one of the growing number of so-called Sister Moms. While widowed or divorced women with grown children have long entered religious life, Sister Moms in the U.S. are now establishing a distinct identity for themselves. Spurred by a dissertation project for her Ed.D. at Spalding University, FitzGerald tracked down 125 of them in 98 religious communities around the country. In the 1990s, she began an annual conference at which the women bond over such unique experiences as telling their children about their choice ("98% are supportive," says FitzGerald...
...approach in action at the University of Kentucky's Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, one of six hospitals to be named this week as lead participants in a 3 1/2-year, $1.5 million joint project aimed at reducing preterm birth, sponsored by the March of Dimes and the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute...
...James Ferguson, chair of the University of Kentucky's department of obstetrics and gynecology and a seasoned professor who flashes a smile when he says things you should pay attention to, sees an opportunity in his hospital's large number of preemies. As part of the March of Dimes project, Chandler has set a goal of reducing late preterm singleton births...
...major emphasis of the new project is on educating the public about the dangers of preterm labor--and reminding physicians that a vacation, for instance, isn't a good-enough reason to schedule an early delivery. The assumption: if mothers knew the real risks of prematurity, they would be less likely to request induced labor or a C-section and would stick out the pregnancy to term...
...project is also focused on the final three weeks of pregnancy, a time when most mothers-to-be assume they are out of the woods. But as Dr. Henrietta Bada, chief of neonatology at the University of Kentucky, explains, those last few weeks in the womb are critical for a newborn's development. The health risks for a baby born at week 35, she says, are more like those of a baby born at week 30 than one born at week 37. "The perception is that a big baby--even if he's premature--is going to act like...