Baby
Born in Grace Cottage's Emergency Room
By Chris Garofalo,
reprinted with permission from The Brattleboro Reformer of September
10, 2009
Dr. Wally Griffiths & Patti Reardon, RN
delivered Jasper in the Grace Cottage
ER on September 6th. |
An unexpected emergency room delivery at Grace Cottage Hospital
marked the first time in seven years that Vermont's smallest hospital
welcomed a newborn into the world.Wardsboro resident Shari Zavattero,
24, gave birth Sunday [September 6] at 11:51 p.m. to Jasper Wyhatt
Zavattero in the emergency room of the Townshend hospital, just
minutes after arriving. Jasper weighed 2 pounds, 11 ounces and measured
about 15 inches long. According to Shari's mother, Brenda Zavattero,
her daughter's first child was not due until November 28, but she
felt something was wrong at home last weekend. She went into the
bathroom and realized the baby was coming much sooner than scheduled,
said her mother. Keith Burke, a family friend, rushed her to the
nearest emergency room..."Within minutes of getting to the
hospital, the baby was crowning," said Zavattero.... Since
Grace Cottage no longer includes a birthing center, staff members
attended to the newborn and his family in the ER, bringing in blankets
and other supplies necessary for Jasper. Medics with the Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center neonatal team arrived shortly after the birth to
pick up Jasper, who was 12 weeks premature, and bring him to the
Lebanon, N.H., hospital. Shari Zavattero took a separate ambulance
to Lebanon to stay with her son. Jasper remains at DHMC in stable
condition, but the family is uncertain when he will return home.
... Brenda Zavaterro said her family wishes to extend its deepest
gratitude to the staff at Grace Cottage for all their assistance.
"We would like to thank the doctor, nurses and staff at Grace
Cottage for a fantastic job they did with the delivery of Jasper
and the care they gave him and my daughter," she said.
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