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    By Casey [email protected]

    Saving lives and uniting amilies may seem like a oa-lietime experience or most people, but or Dr. Beauchamp, M.D. Perinatologist at Eastern Idaho R

    Medical Center in Idaho Falls, it is a common occurrencTough she also has her own practice, Beauchamp a

    resents a new service provided by the hospital to providewomen and unborn children involved in high-risk pregn

    Te closest hospital that provided these services wasLake City, Utah until Beauchamp joined the team at EIROctober o last year.

    As the only perinatologist, or doctor trained in Matetal Medicine (MFM), in all o Eastern Idaho, Beauchampatients rom several o the surrounding cities, includinrom Montana.

    Beauchamp is a consultant and her patients are ofen to her by their obstetricians. With her specialty, Dr. Beauis able to treat several different categories o patients.

    Beauchamp sees patients who have a amily history orisk pregnancies; those who have medical problems liketes, high blood pressure or heart disease; those who hav

    plications o the pregnancy like preterm labor or i theihas broken prematurely, issues or deects o the etus anrisk pregnancies due to multiple births like twins or trip

    EIRMC recently became certified to do several different screening or pregnant patients to determine i there are riso the screening process involves an ultrasound evaluatioetus to check or Down Syndrome and other abnormalitie

    Beauchamp said the ability to do detailed screening ally big deal or Eastern Idaho and surrounding areas. Ssaid there doesnt have to be a amily history o abnormawomen to get the screening.

    Obviously we suggest that the patients who are mor

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    Casey Archibald/carchibald@postreDr. Luanna Beauchamp, M.D., left, and her patient Amanda Bockheim, hold Bockheims twin girls. The family went home Sept. 9 after several monthhospital and NICU.

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    to be at risk, like those 35 or older, or those with a hiproblems to come in and get a screening. But really, annant woman is at risk. In act, Down Syndrome babies amore ofen to ladies in their 20s than in their 30s. So anat risk, said Beau-champ.

    Beauchamp saidabout 30 percent oall the pregnancies

    in Eastern Idahocan be consideredhigh-risk. She saidpart o the reasonor that is there area lot o people inthe area who havediabetes or highblood pressure.

    Te ultrasoundsand machinery thatBeauchamp uses

    or lab work andtesting are muchmore sophisticatedand complicatedthan traditionalhospital machinery.

    We have stateo the art machinesthat can not only doyour traditional ul-trasound, but also3D and 4D ultra-sounds so we can

    look or babies withbirth deects, saidBeauchamp.

    For deects likespina bifida, it is es-sential to use moredetailed and com-plex machinery.Te 3D or 4D ultra-sounds can capturedetails by searchingeach vertebra alongthe spine to check

    them or deects.Beauchamp said

    that one o her primary goals is to find ways to keep tin the womb or as long as possible without causing any

    Roughly every day the baby stays inside, in utero, sbaby about three days in the intensive care nursery, saichamp. I I can get them to hold on or two days longerro, that is almost a week in the NICU. It adds up quite q

    Coleen Niemann, Director o Marketing & Commulations at EIRMC, said having Dr. Beauchamp at the completes the spectrum o care rom pregnancy, to inchildhood, and then on to adulthood.

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    Dr. Beauchamp helps with complicated pregnancies and someo those babies end up in our NICU, where we have highly special-zed care through neonatology. We also have a pediatric intensive

    care unit. Tat way, i there are conditions that children ace long-term they may have specialized pediatric care services. For the firsttime, we have the ull spectrum rom preconception all the way upto 18 years o age. Its all available right here. We can take care o anybaby, pre-baby, or child, up to the age o 18 in a critical care situation

    without having our patients leave this community.Dana Ridlon, the Nursing Supervisor o the Obstetrix Med-cal Group o Idaho Falls, works closely with Dr. Beauchamp

    and said that her patients ofen become her riends once she hashelped them through their high-risk pregnancies.

    Patient Amanda Bockheim, finally took her twin girls homeon Sept. 9, afer several months in the hospital during her preg-nancy, and dozens o hospital visits during the girls 3 months inthe NICU.

    Dr. Beauchamp saw Bockheim and her girls through thepregnancy process and aided in the complications that arose.Beauchamp said she was thrilled to see the twins finally goinghome afer such a long journey.

    Tats what this care is all about, said Beauchamp. We tryto support both the physical and emotional needs o our patientshere. We buy good Kleenexes.

    Beauchamp said she wants to give all the women in IdahoFalls and in the region the best prenatal care available so theirpregnancies can be successul.n

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    Dr. Luanna Beauchamp, M.D. joined the team at EIRMC last Octobprovide care to women with high-risk pregnancies. (Casey [email protected])