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July 8, 2010
Discovery Health’s new show “Strange Pregnancies” features Sault Ste. Marie woman, Marquette Physicians
Discovery Health Channel's new show “Strange Pregnancies” premieres with an episode featuring Sault Ste. Marie resident Sarah Reinfelder, and Marquette physicians Dr. Connie Hedmark, Dr. Breanna Pond and Dr. Julia Frei. The show will air on Discovery Health July 12, 2010 at 9 p.m. Eastern.
On February 26, 2009, Sarah gave birth to twin girls, Kaylin Joy and Valerie Marie, from two separate uteri at Marquette General Hospital. Sarah has what’s called uterus didelphys, meaning she has two uteri. The condition is very rare, and what’s even rarer is that she carried one twin in each uterus. Sarah conceived the twins naturally. There are only three documented cases in medical literature worldwide in the last 40 years.
The babies were delivered by caesarean section at 33 weeks’ gestation by Dr. Connie Hedmark and Dr. Breanna Pond, both of OB/GYN Associates of Marquette and on the medical staff of Marquette General. The babies were cared for in the Marquette General Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Neonatologist Dr. Julia Frei.
Discovery Health came to Marquette General in March to shoot a simulation of the caesarean section and hospital stay, which featured the Reinfelders, Drs. Hedmark, Pond and Frei, and numerous Marquette General staff.
The MGH NICU provides intensive care for premature and/or sick infants. The unit has three neonatologists, two neonatal nurse practitioners and a team of nurses specially trained to take care of these very special little ones. Its staff can also travel anywhere in the UP with an EMS ambulance to transport very sick infants to MGH for treatment.
MGH delivers about 880 babies per year; and cares for 260-280 babies in the NICU per year.
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