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Article: Hospital gowns that are fit to be tied
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- May 6, 2008
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The shimmer of hope that carried Cindy Mesaros through her
medical ordeal came in whimsical pastels.
When the San Francisco woman underwent an emergency cesarean
section, narrowly saving her daughter after an umbilical-cord
rupture, she was wearing a patterned hospital gown she had purchased
with giving birth in mind. And when things got dicey, the gown
helped her get through, she said.
"It sounds vain and trivial, but I think it matters," she said.
"Labor is such a difficult and scary thing, anything that gives you
back that sense of confidence helps."
The purchase put her among an increasing number of patients, and
a small but growing set of providers, calling for hospital wear that ...