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One Pound Baby Celebrates Second Birthday
Looking at Sabrina Carreon now, it’s hard to think that one day her entire body fitted snugly into her father’s hand. Born at just 24 weeks, she weighed just one pound, but is now celebrating her second birthday with no sign of the incredibly difficult start to life that she endured. Sabrina’s mother, Kaye, suffered from Preeclampsia – high... Read more of this article
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month To Launch
Teen Services is getting set to launch a campaign by proclaiming May as Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, with a proclamation ceremony to be held tomorrow [May 4]. The event will take place at Teen Services, next to Fort Hamilton, at 12.30pm, with the agency inviting the public to take part; the event will include the reading of the proclamation, guest... Read more of this article
Kiwanis Donate $21,000 To KEMH Baby Unit
The Kiwanis Club of Bermuda has donated $21,000 towards a new incubator that will be used in the Special Care Baby Unit in the Maternity Department of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Christine Virgil, Clinical Director of Maternal Child, comments: “We are very grateful for this very kind donation. Such donations make a big difference on the... Read more of this article
Bermuda Welcomes First Baby Of 2016
Bermuda welcomed the first baby of 2016 at 5.55pm today [Jan 1] when Shikiyla Hendrickson gave birth to 7lb 1.3oz baby boy. A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokesperson said: “BHB is delighted to announce the first birth of 2016 at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. “A 7lb 1.3oz boy was born at 5:55pm on 1 January 2016 to mother Shikiyla Hendrickson.... Read more of this article
Bermuda Welcomes Two Babies During Storm
Bermuda Hospitals Board announced the birth of two babies born yesterday during the storm conditions of Hurricane Joaquin, with Roman Ledyaev and London Rose Williams both making their grand entrance into the world as the hurricane passed by Bermuda. Roman Ledyaev came at 9:04pm during the height of the blustery weather. His mother Sabrina Ledyaev said... Read more of this article
New Tawny Frogmouth Chicks At BAMZ
The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo is now playing host to two new inhabitants, a pair of tawny frogmouth chicks born approximately one month ago to parents Kermit and Duane, inhabitants of the Australasia exhibit. The Bermuda Zoological Society [BZS] newsletter said, “These two adorable Tawny Frogmouth chicks hatched about a month ago and are... Read more of this article
BHB Recognise International Day Of The Midwife
The Bermuda Hospitals Board today recognises International Day of the Midwife, 2015. BHB has 23 registered nurses with midwifery credentials and last year there were 559 births in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital Maternity Department. The day is being celebrated around the world around the theme of “Midwives: for a better tomorrow”. Janet Wheelan,... Read more of this article
Photos/Video: Gun Salute Celebrates Royal Baby
[Updated with photos & video] To celebrate the birth of the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, a Royal Four Gun Salute will take place this afternoon [May 2] at 12:30pm at Albouy’s Point in Hamilton, and the public is invited to attend. “In attendance will be His Excellency The Governor, Mr. George Fergusson and Mrs. Fergusson... Read more of this article
Regiment Gunners Prepare To Salute Royal Baby
Bermuda Regiment gunners are on standby to celebrate a new Royal baby with a traditional salute, as the Duchess of Cambridge is expected to give birth to the fourth in line to the British throne soon. And the field guns of the Regiment, part of the Guns and Assault Pioneers [GAP] are ready for to deliver the salute from Albuoys Point in Hamilton. Regiment... Read more of this article
Bermuda Welcomes Two Christmas Babies
This Christmas day was extra special for two families, with two baby girls born within minutes of each other late this morning [Dec 25] at King Edward Memorial Hospital. Germaine Darrell gave birth to the first baby at 10:26am, a girl weighing 7 lbs 8oz and 19.25 inches long who has been named Nevaeh Tnes Darrell, which is Heaven Sent spelled backwards. Some... Read more of this article
West End Ambulance Team Called Into Action
An ambulance team based at the Bermuda Regiment’s Warwick Camp this morning [Oct 17] swung into action after an emergency call from a woman who had gone into labour early. King Edward VII Memorial Hospital critical nurse Shaunne Smith said, “It’s useful being based up here. Everybody’s got their stations and their areas.” The Regiment’s... Read more of this article
DoH & LLL Join In World Breastfeeding Week
The Department of Health [DoH] and La Leche League [LLL] will join an international campaign marking World Breastfeeding Week beginning on Monday, August 4, 2014. This year’s theme is ‘Breastfeeding is Normal.’ Mellonie Furbert, Public Health Nutritionist for the Department of Health and member of Bermuda’s Breastfeeding Promotion Committee,... Read more of this article
