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September 8, If,
Bryan hospital conducts children’s tours
by Janet G. Joyce
Battalion Reporter
Fifteen children, ages 2
through 10, have mothers who
are expecting babies. To help
prepare them for the arrival of
their new brother or sister, they
toured the labor, delivery and
maternity sections of St. Joseph
Hospital in Bryan.
The children’s tour is the
brainchild of registered nurse
Judy Skove, the obstetrical and
gynecological coordinator for
the hospital, who introduced the
program in May as part of fami
ly-oriented maternity care.
Tours of this kind are con
ducted in other places, usually
larger hospitals, but typically are
not done in smaller hospitals be
cause the demand is not as great,
Skove said.
“We had some mothers ask us
about it (and that) is the main
reason I decided that it really
was worthwhile for us to go
ahead with it,” Skove said. “So
far, response has been fantas
tic.”
Originally, one tour a month
was planned, with 12 to 15 chil
dren per tour, but additional
tours have been conducted be
cause of a large demand for the
tour.
Dr. Candida Lutes, an associ
ate professor of psychology at
the University, who has a re
search interest in infant and
child development, said tours
like the one offered at St. Joseph
are an excellent way to show
children where their mothers
will be and what will happen
One way parents can prepare
their children, Lutes said, is to
talk to them about what is going
to happen to mom.
“If you don’t tell them what’s
going on, they see things going
on and they make their own in-
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young children can have some
pretty bizarre interpretations.”
Lutes also said young chil
dren often feel displaced by
their new brother or sister.
“Because they’re maturing;
very rapidly, they’re picking up!
new skills and they seem to give!
an indication that ‘Well mom, if
you don’t like somebody being
mature and you really needed a
new baby, why didn’t you tell
me? I can act babyish,”’ Lutes
said. “They’re wondering if they
fell down on the job of being the
family baby.”
But the birth of a child can be
a positive experience for chil
dren.
“There’s often quite a bit of
affection that will come out and
this can be an exciting time,
especially if the parents have
prepared their other children
for the birth of the new baby,”
she said.
During the tour, the children
are shown a labor or delivery
room if one is available. There,
Skove explains that the doctors
listen to the baby’s heart. She de
monstrates the fetal monitor, a
super-sensitive stethoscope with
a speaker, over the heart of one
of the children.
The children are then shown
a transport incubator into which
a doll has been placed. They roll
the incubator to the nursery on
the second floor, just as a baby
would be taken from the deliv
ery room to the nursery.
The tours are conducted on
the first Wednesday of each
month and are limited to chil
dren of women who will have
babies at the hospital. Each child
must be accompanied by at least
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Two-year-old Megan Homer of Bryan holds a plastic “baby” as nurse Judy Skove looks on.
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