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Improvements made to
baby-picture program
By Emilie Hornak, The Porterville
Recorder
A baby's first picture is
special - one that most parents want everyone to
see.
That's why Sierra View District Hospital and a
local photography studio owner have teamed up to improve the
hospital's three-year-old program aimed at offering parents a
chance to make pictures of their newborn babies available on
the Internet.
The studio, Picture
This, takes digital photos of the babies at the hospital
during their first few hours of life. Prints of the photos are
available for sale, but parents can request that it be posted
on the hospital's Web site for free.
"Seven days a
week, 365 days a year we come to the hospital around 9 or 10
in the morning and visit all the rooms of new mothers to ask
if they want a picture of they're baby," said Eric Bottroff,
owner of Picture This.
By using digital cameras,
Bottroff's company is able to get the perfect shot. The
cameraman is able to show the mom what the picture looks like
before placing it on the Internet, guaranteeing
satisfaction.
"We want our moms to be happy with the
picture they get, so we wait and take pictures until we get
one they like," Bottroff said, explaining that the packages
begin at $29.95.
No package purchase is necessary to
have the photo posted on the Web.
Along with the
photos, the baby's birth stats - name, length, weight - are
posted as well, said Tim Mora, the SVDH IT specialist who is
in charge of the hospital's Web site.
Making the photos
available on the Web is something special to a lot of people,
especially new parents with family living in other parts of
the country.
"For those who are computer savvy and have
family living out of state, this is something fantastic," said
Beverly Cline, RCN and clinical supervisor for Maternal Child
Medicine at SVDH. "People all over can see the picture of the
new baby and even print it if they want to. Parents are just
ecstatic about it."
Cline said one recent patient was
so excited she questioned where her baby's photo was on the
Internet only hours after it was taken.
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