A baby’s first friend
The Province
The 35-year-old registered nurse at St. Paul’s Hospital is assigned one to one to a labouring patient and it’s her job to stay by the patient’s side until her baby is born or her shift ends, whichever comes first. Usually, the babies do. But not always. It takes more than passion for Kathleen Mochoruk to get through a 12-hour nursing shift.
It’s a girl
The Province
Fen Wu has a very special delivery at St. Paul’s Hospital. The child she is carrying – a baby girl fast approaching her birthday – will be the first child born in her husband Erxing Chen’s family in four decades. To say the prospective parents are excited is an understatement.
She made birthing family friendly
The Province
During the 1900s, birth was increasingly medicalized and babies born in hospitals were usually separated from mothers, bottle-fed and kept in nurseries. But by the 1970s, society’s view of women, pregnancy and birth were changing. Ratsoy, then clinical coordinator for obstetrics, saw a need for St. Paul’s to change with them.