The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 260, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1985 Page: 27 of 47
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday, September 1, 1985
Nurse mothers’ cheerleader
Labor and delivery specialist respected'
GREENVILLE (API - For 17
years Edith Morton has been a
labor and delivery nurse at
Citizen’s General Hospital.
Around the hospital and this
East Texas city she is known as
the “mother superior,” and the
."one who remembers the bir-
thdays.”
» Candy Clem of Campbell has
Three times been Mrs. Norton’s
patient. “Edith helped me with
my three kids: Joshua in ’78,
“April in ’80 and Eli in ’83,” Mrs.
Clem said. “She is very
knowledgeable. With Eli she
«tood by me in delivery,
’answered questions, and she was
Very concerned.
“A maternity nurse is a vital
part of childbirth; they are very
supportive,” Mrs. Clem said.
“Edith fills this part very well.
She is your cheerleader during
the tough moments.”
Mrs. Morton has assisted in
Sbout 5,000 births in nearly two
decades. Some of “her” babies
have returned as mothers
themselves.
“I feel good when I walk down
the street and mothers stop me
and talk. Most of them
J-emember me; after all,
childbirth is a memorable ex-
perience,” Mrs. Morton said. “I
tjtke all this one day at a time
now....I am in my 60s, and I
haven’t planned my retirement
yet.” ' '
Mrs. Morton grew up in Green-
ville, then married and moved to
Dallas where she worked as a
riveter in a World War II air- '
craft factory. Later she came to ✓ knowledgeable about this work,
the Greenville hospital as a She knows the doctors well. She
trainee. In a year’s time, she
was a licensed vocational nurse.
She has loved the job.
“Some of my best moments In
life are when an older mother,
one In her 30s or 40s, has her first
baby after trying a long time,”
Mrs. Morton saldr“When you br-
ing the baby in to visit after
% childbirth and see the fantastic
reaction of the mother...now that
is nice.”
Janet Grandfield, nursery
supervisor, said, “Edith thinks
of her patients as number one,
over doctors, over anything. She
is dedicated, extremely
knowledgeable and highly com-
petent. She does like the St.
Louis Cardinals, but no one is
perfect.”
Chief ff>i Obstetrics and
Gynecology Dr. Jerry Coker,
who has worked with Mrs. Mor-
ton for nearly two decades, can’t
say enough about the nurse:
“She has a sixth sense about
things going wrong....She knows
when to call the doctor in. We
joke because she always calls us
extra earl^ for a delivery. In all
these years she has never
delivered a baby, which is
unusual for a maternity nurse —
she always gets us there on
time. ..She is worried about her
patients, not the doctor. She also
bakes a mean chocolate cake for
my birthday each year.”
Unit Coordinating Nurse of
Maternity, Lela Brock, said of
Mrs. Morton: “She is very
can do about anything Here.
Her biggest asset Is her ex-
perience. She is very motherly to
young girls in labor, and she can
be stern if she needs to
be....Some of them need that.”
Mrs. Morton said some things
have changed in her years of ser-
vice, notably the trend for
natural childbirth and the
presence of fathers in the
delivery room.
- “The La Maze method is the
preferred method of birth by
mothers and anesthesiologists at
present,” she said. “The doctors
say the natural childbirth is a lot
safer, albeit more painful for the
mother, because with ...
anesthesiology two lives are put
in danger. In addition, the
mother has to go through
recovery procedures after the
birth.
“Today, fathers are almost
always present in the delivery
room. It is a rare man who wilj
not go in. Children now also visit
soon after delivery, and this was
not the case 20 years ago,” she
satdv. *.....
Fetal monitory has made the
birth process sgfer, Mrs. Morton
believes. The baby’s heart rate
is monitored during a mother’s
contractions, and if the rate goes
too low or too high, medical per-
sonnel know that the baby is in
distress. When this happens,
Mrs. Morton says it is time to
call the doctor.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 260, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1985, newspaper, September 1, 1985; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074757/m1/27/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.