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Sutter Memorial Hospital celebrates motherhood
By Crystal Carreon - ccarreon@sacbee.com
Published 4:28 pm PDT Sunday, May 11, 2008
Every time a baby is born, Brahms' Lullaby trickles through the intercom at Sutter Memorial Hospital in east Sacramento.
On Sunday, the welcoming serenade resonated with a greater pitch on the third-floor maternity ward, where a guitarist and flute player performed exclusively for new moms. Mother's Day gift baskets with oatmeal cookies and teas arrived, courtesy of the hospital.
"We want to be able to honor and show our gratitude to our new mothers," said Linda Pinkham, a hospital spokeswoman who has helped coordinate the annual celebration for moms over the past 10 years.
During the first 12 hours after midnight Sunday, four babies were born at Sutter Memorial Hospital. There were nearly three-dozen newborns and their mothers resting in the maternity ward.
Inside one room, three-day-old Itzel Natali Zamora closed her brown eyes and nestled her tiny crop of black hair close to her mother, Irene Rodriguez.
"It's a whole new life ahead of us," said Rodriguez, who teaches kindergarten in south Sacramento and planned to deliver close to summer break. "She is our whole world."
Itzel arrived after an intense, 30-hour-labor: She was in the wrong position. Her heart rate had become distressed, and Rodriguez developed a fever.
"Once I had her in my arms, I forgot about everything - all the pain," the new mother recalled as she cradled her daughter on Sunday. "I feel very lucky."
A few doors down, Svetlana Chernioglo leaned her day-old son, Nicholas against her shoulder, patting his back to draw a stubborn little burp. The mother's movements were swift and expert. Nicholas, swathed in a white baby blanket with a head full of sandy brown hair, is Chernioglo's sixth son with her husband, Fedor.
Nicholas was born at 8:54 a.m. Saturday. He'll join the Chernioglo brothers: Tommy, 10; Villy, 9; Jessie, 7; Timothy, 5; and James, 2. "For me this year, it's even a happier Mother's Day," Chernioglo said from her hospital bed. "I got a gift."
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Svetlana Chernioglo with her day-old son, Nicholas, at Sutter Memorial Hospital in east Sacramento on Sunday. Nicholas was born at 8:54 a.m. Saturday. "For me this year, it's even a happier Mother's Day," Chernioglo said, "I got a gift." Randy Pench / rpench@sacbee.com
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