MULTILING CORPORATION CONTRIBUTES TO MOTHER AND INFANT CARE AT THE NEW BORN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT IN PROVO, UTAH
A Team at MultiLing
Corporation, Lead by a Mother Whose Baby Was in New Born ICU, Gives Back
to the Hospital that Helped Save Her Baby’s Life
September 4, 2008 – Provo, Utah
– In the spirit of good citizenship, community, and care, MultiLing
Corporation is donating care kits for mothers and newborns in the New Born
Intensive Care Unit at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center today.
About
one year ago, Gabriela Poletti gave birth to her first child, a son
named Alex. As any new mother would be, she was excited and happy to
bring this new life into the world. However, the first 22 days
of Alex’s life were spent in the New Born Intensive Care Unit, also
known as the NICU, at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo,
Utah. Alex was born with Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome and respiratory
distress.
Little did Gabriela know, but when she and her baby found themselves in the
NICU, there were already many “graduates,” babies who had experienced
similar challenges at NICU, yet were released and went on to grow
healthy and happy. Their mothers, along with the NICU Coordinator, have
now formed a support group for families that find themselves at the NICU. The
mothers of the “graduates" also provide care packages for these families as well as a range of different
activities for them to participate in, such as pizza nights and
scrapbooking classes.
The care packages MultiLing has prepared contain
essentials like shampoo, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and lotion,
as well as thank-you cards and big handkerchiefs. The handkerchiefs
are taken home by the new mothers, and are held close to their bodies
while they are sleeping. The babies in the NICU usually cannot be held
due
to their fragile conditions, and thus lack contact with their
mothers. Therefore, the handkerchiefs are returned and placed next to
the babies, which allow them to have
the mothers' smell with them. This helps the baby and mother bond
together
while the baby is in its fragile state and cannot be held.
After a long, stressful, and painful 22 days, Gabriela was able
to take Alex home. She is pleased to report that he is a happy and
healthy 20-month old, for which she gives thanks each day. Because of
the support Gabriela received, she wanted to do something special for
the people at NICU and this project was born.
She lead the project in assembling the kits, and her other "family" at
MultiLing was very supportive and helpful in donating items and putting
them together.
Today, MultiLing will be delivering care packages for the families
and babies who are at the NICU at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.
“I am so thankful and blessed to be able to pay forward this service
that was rendered to me and Alex,” said Gabriela Poletti, a team leader
at MultiLing Corporation. “I know what a difference this made to me and
my family, and I am happy that I work for a company who not only
supported me throughout the birth and complications of my son, but is
assisting me in doing this project. I hope that this will inspire many
more people to support the families that are going through similar
experiences.”
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Provo, Utah, MultiLing Corporation
is an international language services and technology company. They
provide translation, localization and globalization services and
translation technology to customers in countries throughout the world.
They are a recognized industry leader in language technology and
customer service.
About MultiLing
Founded
in 1988 in Provo, Utah, MultiLing Corporation has developed into one of
the premier players in the language services and technology industry.
MultiLing operates translation centers in over 30 countries, providing
translation, localization and globalization services and translation
technology to customers worldwide. Current clients include many Fortune
500 companies such as Dell, Procter & Gamble ,DuPont, LSI Logic,
QLogic, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Renault, Samsung and General Electric
Healthcare. For more information visit www.multiling.com.
For more information,
please visit the MultiLing website at http://www.multiling.com.
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