World's Greatest Baby Shower Coming Saturday, May 1
Annual event to be held at The Children's Center in Titusville
TITUSVILLE, FLA, March 12, 2010— The best gift you can give an expectant or new mother is to bring her to the World's Greatest Baby Shower, Saturday, May 1 — communities working together to promote healthy babies and healthy mothers. This annual event will be held at The Children's Center, 5650 South Washington Avenue, Titusville. The free event will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and targets all new and expectant parents, including adoptive parents.
The World's Greatest Baby Shower offers educational exhibits and helpful presentations by healthcare and other children's experts, plus light refreshments and plenty of door prizes. Topics this year are "Make Your Own Baby Food," offered by Beth Shephard, University of Florida Extension Agent/IFAS Brevard County Extension; "Diabetes in Children" by Omar Hudson, MD, pediatric endocrinologist with MIMA; "Drowning Prevention/Water Safety" by Gayle Whitworth, University of Florida Extension Agent/IFAS Brevard County Extension; and "Ask A Doc" panel with a lactation specialist, midwife, anesthesiologist and pediatrician. Over 40 informational booths showcasing agencies or merchants will offer their services to young families with soon-to-be newborns or infants under two years old.
Sponsors of the World's Greatest Baby Shower are Parrish Medical Center Spirit of Women, University of Florida/Brevard County Extension Service, Titusville Kiwanis, The Children's Center, Brevard County Health Department/WIC and B.E.T.A. of Titusville, Inc.
For more information call 321-633-1702, or 321-952-4536, ext.245
PRESENTERS NAMED FOR WORLD'S GREATEST BABY SHOWER
The World's Greatest Baby Shower, coming on Saturday, May 1 at the Children's Center, 5650 South Washington Avenue, Titusville, will feature experts in their fields to reassure new and expectant parents about their role as mom and dad. The annual free event is slated from 9 am to 1 pm with over forty outside exhibitors plus seminars in the Children's Center with comfortable, air-conditioned seating. Light refreshments will be available as well as food vendors.
"Diabetes in Children" will be addressed by Omar D. Hudson, M.D. a specialist in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes education. Dr. Hudson returned to Florida after completing his sub-specialty training at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Arizona. Prior to his fellowship he completed his residence in near-by Tampa at the University of South Florida. He became the second pediatric endocrinologist for newborns, infants, children and adolescents at Holmes Regional Medical Center providing care for metabolic, endocrine diseases and diabetes. In addition to his in-patient duties as a consultant at HRMC, Dr. Hudson has an office practice including being a pediatric endocrinology provider for Florida's Children Medical Services.
"Drowning Prevention/Water Safety" presenter is Gayle Whitworth, who has been with the University of Florida Brevard County Extension for fourteen years, holds her Bachelor's degree in Child Development and Family Relations from Western Carolina University and her Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Central Florida. In addition to serving as chair for exhibits for the World's Greatest Baby Shower, she works with the Brevard County residents in the areas of Housing, Child Passenger Safety and Family Financial Management. Whitworth is a Certified Child Safety instructor and a member of the Source of Safety, Inc./Brevard County Safe Kids organization.
"Make Your Own Baby Food" has returned by popular request as explained by Beth Shephard, nutritionist with the Brevard County University of Florida Extension, and co-chair of the World's Greatest Baby Shower. Shephard covers procedures to ensure safety of babies in simple yet effective ways.
The "Ask a Doc" panel participants include specialists on the staff at Parrish Medical Center whose expertise relates to the best health care for moms and their newborns. They include:
Dr. Peter DeBalli is a board-certified anesthesiologist at Parrish Medical Center. He complete his anesthesiology residency and a fellowship in obstetrical anesthesia at Duke University. Dr. DeBalli will discuss options for pain relief during labor and delivery.
Eileen Lo Presti, who holds Board Certification from the International Board of Lactation Consultants. Lo Presti has her Bachelor of Science degree from Loretta Heights College, Denver, Colorado, with certification in lactation education from USLA. She has been working in the field for more than thirteen years supporting breastfeeding.
Tanya Itani Taival, D.O. holds Board Certification from the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr.Taival is a graduate of NOVA Southeastern University and completed her Residency at Michigan State University, Garden City Hospital, Garden City, Michigan.
Ravi G. Raman, M.D. is Board Certified in Pediatrics. He is a graduate of the Medical College of Baroda, India, completed his Fellowship at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio and Residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago.
Cara Starkey is a midwife who received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, and her Masters of Science in Nursing and Certificate of Nurse Midwifery at Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in Hyden, Kentucky. In 2002 she worked as a labor and delivery nurse and high risk obstetrics and in the field of midwifery since 2007.
