Health Beat - Babies - Every 10 Seconds

DateSeptember 28 1980

Can DescriptionsMaster; Health Beat; Babies: Every 10 Second, WCVB code 2; X-850

AbstractHealthbeat; Babies: Every 10 Seconds; Dr. Timothy Johnson hosts a program that looks at a range of ways in which babies come into the world; Susan and Rick prepare for the birth of their second child from the moment of conception with prenatal classes, and then with both parents actively participating in the actual delivery of their daughter Kate; a perinatal center is visited for the care it provides when late pregnancy's develop difficulties; teenage mothers are vulnerable to special complications; Teenage bodies and the babies' bodies are growing at the same time, and require nutrition and self-control on the teenagers' part; laboratory conception is demonstrated at a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia; in rural America, infant morality is still a problem;

OtherCredits: Produced By: Pamela Bullard, Ann R. Steinetz; Written By: Pamela Bullard, Ann R. Steinetz, Dr. Timothy Johnson; Under the Medical Supervision of Dr. Timothy Johnson; Director of Photography: Edw. G. Dadulak; Editor: George Ellard; Sound Recordists: Miles Siegel, James Fripp, Vic Iorillo, Richard Bok; Tape Recordist: Bayard Peabody Jr.; Floor Directors: Frank Firnschild, Scott Philbrick, Bruce Goldman, J. I. Laughinghouse; Production Assistant: Rick Blue; Music Composed and Arranged By: Scott Steinetz; Graphic Illustrator: Lynne Ivers Thompson; Production Manager: Alan Ritsko; Program Administrator: Joyce McGugan; Director of Medical Programming: Dr. Timothy Johnson; Executive Producers: David Kuhn, Stephen Schlow; Program Executive: Bruce R. Marson; This program was supported in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which also provided funding to the projects depicted in Cleveland, Ohio and Hazard, Kentucky; A special thankyou to all who shared their joy.