"Premature Baby’s Parents Learn New Yorkers Aren’t Jerks After All" - Melissa Klein
A North Carolina cosmetics saleswoman in the Big Apple for a brief business trip was thrust into the crisis of a lifetime – and discovered the inner beauty of what she thought would be a city of coldhearted strangers. Shelcie Holbert, 23 years old and six months pregnant, arrived for a business trip, but felt a strange pressure in her abdomen. She excused herself and walked several blocks to the emergency room at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. Doctors put her in an ambulance to Mount Sinai West, which specializes in preterm labor. Holbert delivered Rosalie Grace on June 26 at a mere one pound, nine ounces. Her parents had their own survival to think about in an unfamiliar, and costly, city where they would have to live for at least the next three months. Jenna, who lives near the hospital and owns a second apartment in her building that she’s trying to sell, immediately offered it to Holbert. Rafaela Calabio, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a newborn medicine specialist at Mount Sinai West, one of Rosalie’s doctors, thinks the support is helping Holbert relax, produce milk and care for her baby.
- Rafaela Z. Calabio, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Newborn Medicine Specialist, Mount Sinai West
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