BWH Hosts Governor Swift’s Historic Delivery- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
BWH Hosts Governor Swift’s Historic Delivery- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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May 18, 2001
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BWH Hosts Governor Swift’s Historic Delivery
“Caring For Each Other”
Here’s Where We Are
A special visit to Boston
Pike Notes
A week after being admitted to BWH for contractions, Acting Governor Jane Swift underwent a Caesarean section to deliver twin girls Tuesday evening. Swift is the first woman in the nation to give birth while serving as governor. Lauren Alma (6 lbs., 17.5 in.), born at 9:11 p.m., and Sarah Jane (5 lbs., 4 oz., 17.5 in.), born at 9:12 p.m., are the newest additions to the family of the Governor and her husband, Charles Hunt III. The couple already has an older daughter, two-year-old Elizabeth, who was also born at BWH in the fall of 1998. “It went smooth as glass,” said BWH obstetrician/gynecologist Leila Schueler, MD, who performed the May 15 C-section several hours after Governor Swift began labor in the late afternoon. During Swift’s five-day recovery at BWH, “she will do what most new mothers do—fawn over her children,” said spokesman Jason Kauppi to a crowd of reporters who gathered in the Carrie M. Hall Conference Center for the press conference announcing the twins’ birth. “Chuck and I are overjoyed and excited with the arrival of Lauren and Sarah,” Swift said in a statement released Tuesday evening. “We feel blessed to welcome two more children into our family and look forward to raising them in our Williamstown home close to our family and friends.”