European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                8�s do Dudlo Lori Ann Flakk and her husband Paul hover Over their new son Thomas Raymond in Lakenheath s Stork nest. Lakenheath s Stork nest gives my m my.  pregnancies by Nancy l Torner medical emergencies. Care. . Bureau Hen senior airman Lori Ellick Learned she was pregnant she had two options for maternity health care. She could use a local Hospital near Iraklion air station Crete where she is customer service manager at the commissary or she could enter the Stork nest program at the 48th medical croup Hospital at Raf Lakenheath England. She chose Lakenheath. I Felt that i would be under better care Ellick  doctor referred her to Lakenheath Ellick said because her baby had an irregular heartbeat and Lakenheath is equipped to handle High risk births. She delivered Thomas Raymond without complications in the Early hours of feb. 10. Ellick arrived at the Stork nest on Jan. 12. Her husband Paul took temporary leave from his Job at the Iraklion base Exchange and joined her on Jan. 29. The program requires expectant mothers to spend their last month or More at Lakenheath if they arrive by plane they also must Fly on Jerome Chical evacuation planes which Are specially equipped and staffed for by my mag tuesday february 23, 1993 medical the Stork nest program allows mothers to be to stay in a special maternity Wing in billeting at Lakenheath while waiting to give birth. They also May stay on the Ward with their babies after giving birth. The program is for women at bases who prefer not to use local hospitals and who Are located at installations that Are not equipped to handle High risk pregnancies or have no maternity facilities. It is open to All women in Europe who qualify for military health care and Are referred by their physicians. Lakenheath is the largest Hospital within . Air forces Europe and the Only one with a Stork nest program that can handle High risk pregnancies said col. Garry Stanberry associate administrator for the 48th medical croup Hospital. Safe officials designated Lakenheath As a Stork nest site in july to replace a similar program that closed at the Hospital in Wiesbaden Germany said capt. Lisa Corso the nurse in charge of Lakenheath s maternity Ward and Newborn Nursery. A Stork nest program is in place at in Ciurlik a Turkey but it has Only two rooms and can handle Only routine pregnancies she said. Lakenheath has seven rooms earmarked for the Stork nest program which can accommodate up to 14 women if rooms Are shared. The rooms Are in a Wing of billeting about a half Block walk to the Hospital. Capt Greg Carson director of patient administration described the Stork s nest residential area As a billeting facility which has been  the Hospital remodeler the rooms with help from the army and air Force Exchange service and officers wives clubs at Lakenheath and Raf Mildenhall. Master sgt. John Randolph who manages Lakenheath s billeting said other women Are allowed to stay in rooms on the Ward if All other billeting rooms Are full but that Stork nest participants have priority. Billeting charges women in the program $8 per night the same As other guests. I was t keen on the program at first Randolph said. But i be seen a lot of people Benefit from it. As far As i m concerned it s  the first expectant Mother airman 1st class Chayette Dominc Teeno arrived from Iraklion in november. The program has averaged about two women a month since Stanberry said but that number is expected to increase As word of the program spreads. Because demand for Beds has not required the sharing of rooms couples such As the Ellicks have been Able to stay in the same room. Carson said he expects no More than eight women to be part of the program at any one time Hial in no i smoking linked to Side the results of a recent study indicate that babies bom to women who quit smoking during pregnancy but resume after birth May be at higher risk for sudden infant death syndrome. Past research found an apparent link Between the syndrome known As Side and mothers who smoke during pregnancy. But the new report indicates that infants who Are exposed to maternal smoking Only after they Are bom May also be at greater risk than babies of non smoking mothers. An analysis of a nationwide Sample of 10,000 Normal birth weight infants and 6,000 infant deaths found that babies were three times More Likely to die of Side if their mothers smoked during and after pregnancy. Those whose mothers abstained during pregnancy but smoked after they were bom had a twice As High risk of dying from Side said or. Kenneth Schoendorf and John Kiely of the National Center for health statistics. Their report appeared in the journal paediatrics. Side a syndrome in which an apparently Well baby inexplicably stops breathing during sleep is the leading cause of death in the United states during the first six months of life. Us course on elder care a program on providing Long distance care for older adults will be held from 10 . To noon on March 23 at Raf Lakenheath England. Michael a. Creedon an associate professor of gerontology at the University of Bridgeport conn., will conduct the program which is open to the Public. Creedon will address issues such As the problems of aging Long distance care givers family communications senior autonomy care in acute and chronic situations and Community resources. Reservations Are recommended and can be made by calling Dan 226-3847. Treating hypertension exercise Long prescribed by doctors As a Way of preventing cardiovascular disease is gaining value As a Way of treating the disorder. Researchers at the veterans administration medical Center in Washington d.c., reported that aerobic exercise could significantly reduce the amount of medication needed to control High blood pressure. Peter Kokkinos and his colleagues studied 20 Black men who had High blood pressure and a heart condition known As left ventricular hypertrophy which places them at increased risk of suffering a heart attack. Half the men were randomly assigned to a non exercise group. The other half exercised three to four times a week for 24 weeks. Both groups were placed on identical blood pressure medications at Tho Start of the study and were matched for age weight and blood pressure. Four months into Tho study researchers began weaning the exercisers off their medication cutting it in two Steps by 36 percent. The exercisers showed no increase in blood pressure even after the reduction in medication. Oxygen consumption also improved the researchers said and the exercisers showed improvement in left ventricular hypertrophy a change that helps to reduce their risk of a heart attack. From staff and wire reports the stars and stripes 17