ISSUES FACING PREGNANT WOMEN TODAY
~ Discovery Health's
new series Deliver Me follows the careers and lives
of three dynamic women doctors as they juggle family
and patient care ~
March 2008
Complex pregnancies and high-risk
births … these are worries for many parents-to-be, but
they are everyday occurrences for Drs. Allison Hill,
Alane Park, and Yvonne Bohn. Discovery Health's new
six-part docu-series, Deliver Me, follows the careers
and lives of these three dynamic women - best friends
who became partners in a demanding Los Angeles OB/GYN
practice. In addition to their thriving careers, all
three are mothers themselves, meaning each must juggle
the pressures of delivering their patients' children
with those of raising their own.
Premiering on Tuesday, March
4, at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT), Deliver Me gives viewers a
behind-the-curtain peek at the professional and personal
lives of these doctors and the patients they treat.
Providing insight into the most relevant and dramatic
issues facing pregnant women today, Deliver Me showcases
Drs. Hill, Park, and Bohn as they lend their care, support
and expertise to the women and families who depend on
them - in good times and in bad.
In the premiere one-hour
episode, viewers meet patients such as Christia Karp,
who learns that her unborn baby might have Down syndrome,
and Ingrid Alamilla, whose dangerously high blood pressure
forces Dr. Park to consider delivering her baby five
weeks preterm. The drama is not reserved for the patients,
however, as single mother Dr. Hill is forced to bring
her children with her on weekend hospital rounds after
her ex-husband reveals he cannot watch them.
Later, audiences learn that
all the time around expecting mothers has triggered
anxieties for Dr. Bohn over her own ticking biological
clock. The doctors have a particularly emotionally draining
day when a longtime patient begins dilating at just
22 weeks - too soon for her baby to survive outside
the womb - just as another patient's pregnancy is revealed
to be ectopic and must be terminated.
For more information on the
show, visit www.press.discovery.com/ekits/deliverme.
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