“Who wants to catch?” CSU, Miracle Riders celebrate new mother-baby simulation lab

A crowd gathered around Victoria’s bed.
When it was time for her to “deliver” her baby, the question posed to those gathered was simple.
“Who wants to catch?”
Lauren Brown, chief planning officer for strategic initiatives at Columbus State University, stepped up, gloved up, and in less than two minutes, hoisted Victoria’s “baby” for all to see.
“It’s exhilarating actually,” Brown said, “my heart was pounding, it was so much fun.”
Easy peasy, especially when Victoria is a mannequin, and the “birth” is one of many to come.
That scene inside CSU’s new mother-baby simulation will soon become common for Columbus State University nursing students thanks to the generosity of the Miracle Riders, a group of motorcyclists whose annual rides across the United States now raise money to benefit CSU’s nursing program.
Columbus State University, the Miracle Riders and their leader Scott Ressmeyer led a Thursday afternoon celebration of the new mother-baby simulation lab, located inside Frank D. Brown Hall on CSU’s RiverPark campus in downtown Columbus.
The lab is named in honor of Dr. Cecil F. Whitaker, a retired OB-GYN physician who delivered thousands of babies in the Chattahoochee Valley. In 1969, Dr. Whitaker became a partner in a Columbus practice that later became OB-GYN Associates of Columbus.

[@wickedcabinboy]

I was a BSN student nurse at CSU in 1992 -1995 (known informally as UCLA - University of Columbus 'Longside the Airport). Did my L&D clinicals at the Medical Center. That hospital department made it abundantly clear that males were unwelcome and unwanted in the L&D department. I have always been grateful for their dissuasion. Now retired after 25 years (23 of which were in the PICU of a large metropolitan level 1 Pediatric trauma center/transport nurse and ECMO specialist. Certainly grateful to CSU for their program.

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Good catch! ❤️ 🙋‍♀️