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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2018
Inmates making clothing worn by preemie babies in Salem
Women stitch
comfy clothes
for newborns
By CAPI LYNN
Statesman Journal
SALEM — Aurora and
Phoenix are snuggled in an
isolette in the neonatal inten-
sive care unit at Salem Hospi-
tal, wearing matching sleepers
with pink hearts almost as big
as theirs.
The Thompson Bailey
twins, born on Dec. 2, more
than four weeks premature, are
oblivious to the camera and the
spotlight.
They don’t know it yet, but
they’ve just notched their first
modeling gig.
The twins are among the
first babies to wear customized
preemie clothing designed
and manufactured by inmates
at Coffee Creek Correctional
Institute, a women’s prison in
Wilsonville.
A cute and comfy cloth-
ing line, made with input from
local neonatal intensive care
unit nurses, has been devel-
oped through a unique part-
nership between Salem Health
and Oregon Corrections
Enterprises.
Preemie clothing can be
difficult to find, and it isn’t
functional for infants with
wires and tubes attached to
their fragile little bodies.
In the past, NICU staff
browsed local retail stores,
which have limited selections,
and snapped up all the preemie
clothes they could.
“You don’t want a NICU
nurse out shopping when
they’re supposed to be doing
their job,” said Jonathan Fet-
terley, the hospital’s former
linens services supervisor.
Fetterley was one of the
project instigators. He had a
conversation with NICU nurse
manager Andrea Bell, and they
worked with officials at Ore-
gon Corrections Enterprises,
which has been providing
linen service for Salem Health
since 2009.
It took two years, but the
first transaction recently was
completed. A freshly laun-
dered bag of 150 preemie out-
fits featuring playful patterns
with hearts, stars, puppies and
fish was delivered Dec. 12.
Early Christmas
present
It was an early Christmas
present for the NICU staff and
its 18 current patients. The
NICU cares for an average of
12 babies at a given time. The
number is higher now because
there are multiple sets of twins.
The Thompson Bailey
twins are thriving. Aurora
weighed 2 pounds, 15 ounces
when she was born and Phoe-
nix 3 pounds, 2.1 ounces. They
now weigh 3 pounds, 10.7
ounces and 3 pounds, 13.7
ounces.
The women on the pro-
duction team at Coffee Creek
were thrilled to hear about the
Anna Reed/Statesman Journal
Aurora, left, and Phoenix Thompson Bailey, born Dec. 2,
wear clothing made by inmates at the Coffee Creek Cor-
rectional Institute at the Salem Health Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit in Salem.
twins’ modeling debut. Team
trainer Tammy Traxtle spoke
on their behalf by phone from
the prison.
“For the entire team, this
is special to us,” Traxtle said.
“We’ve all given birth. We’ve
all been incarcerated over a
year and away from our chil-
dren. Being a part of a team
that gets to make baby clothes
has been powerful for all of
us.”
Nine women make up the
team, which is part of the tex-
tiles program at Coffee Creek.
Oregon Corrections Enter-
prises is an independently-run
program that provides work
and on-the-job training for
inmates in 10 prisons across
the state.
The textiles program trains
inmates in the basics of sew-
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ment for DUII, failure to
carry a license and reckless
endangerment. He was pulled
over at 10th and Commer-
cial streets and registered a
0.20 percent blood alcohol
content.
• On Sunday, Paula Arce-
neaux, 58, from Hammond,
was arrested by the Warren-
ton Police Department for
DUII. She was pulled over at
Main Avenue and First Street
in Warrenton and registered
a 0.13 percent blood alcohol
content.
• On Sunday, Tyler
Duvall, 44, from Portland,
was arrested by the Oregon
State Police for DUII. He was
pulled over on U.S. High-
way 101 in Astoria, failed a
sobriety test and registered
a 0.06 percent blood alcohol
content.
• On Sunday, Jose Saucedo,
20, from Long Beach, Wash-
ington, was arrested by the
Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Office for DUII. He was
pulled over in Astoria and
registered a 0.18 percent
blood alcohol content.
• On Sunday, Brian Young,
44, from Washington state,
was arrested by Oregon State
Police for DUII. He was
pulled over on U.S. Highway
101 in Warrenton and failed a
field sobriety test.
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Dec. 28, 2017
LOVEL, Clyde Verl, 66, of
Astoria, died in Astoria. Cald-
well’s Luce-Layton Mortuary
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arrangements.
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Assigned a task
Once they were ready to
begin actual production, each
team member was assigned
a task, such as cutting fabric,
serging seams, overlapping
seams, making sleeves, sew-
ing parts together, binding for
snaps, ribbing on cuffs, and
attaching snaps.
The shop has 10 sewing
machines in the production
area, four serger machines,
and two cover-stitch machines.
A serger trims the seam allow-
ance and encloses the edge of
the fabric to prevent fraying —
all in one step.
Traxtle, in charge of quality
control, estimates two of every
25 garments made for Salem
Health was returned to be fixed
or remade.
Finding the right fabric was
a challenge. With each sam-
ple they tried, they washed and
dried it multiple times to test
shrinkage.
They chose a cotton and
polyester blend from a vendor
in Pennsylvania. It’s ultra-soft
and has just the right stretch.
Nurses and moms on staff
at Coffee Creek visited the
shop throughout the process,
offering their own suggestions.
Samples of a half-dozen
different types of outfits were
delivered to the hospital for
NICU staff to review quality,
sizing and design.
The staff whittled their
order down to three styles:
onesies, gowns and sleepers
without feet.
Staff suggestions, such as
relocating snaps that would be
in the way of medical tubing,
were adopted before final sam-
ples were approved.
“That’s one of the best parts
about this,” Fetterley said,
“ultimate customization.”
Fetterley, who now works
in a different department,
joined other hospital officials
for the first delivery of preemie
clothes. They posed for photo-
graphs with Oregon Correc-
tions Enterprises officials and
Bell, the NICU nurse manager.
“This one’s perfect for
tubes and cords and lines,”
Bell said, holding up a white
onesie with purple puppies and
pink hearts.
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ing, embroidery and quilting.
Top students are hired for the
production team.
None of them had expe-
rience making baby cloth-
ing. Few had any sewing
background.
What little experience they
had was limited to what Trax-
tle referred to as straight lines
on items such as quilts and
bags. She came to the project
with commercial sewing train-
ing through Oregon Correc-
tions Enterprises.
They started from scratch
by taking a couple of regu-
lar-sized baby outfits that OCE
General Manager Dave Con-
way had purchased and doing
some reverse engineering.
“We shrunk it and shrunk it
and shrunk it,” Conway said.
He also bought an 11-inch
doll for the team to use for
sizing. The inmates call her
Oceana, pronounced Oh-see-
aw-nuh, a play off the Oregon
Corrections Enterprises name.
She turns 2 in February, and
Traxtle said she has the best
wardrobe.
Sizing was important.
Much of the manufactured
clothing for premature infants
is too big. So was functional-
ity. Retail preemie clothes are
not made to accommodate IVs
and feeding tubes.
“In the beginning, it was a
lot of trial and error,” Traxtle
said. “We made templates and
then it was a matter of resizing
and re-cutting, resizing and
re-cutting.”
A quarter-inch on a preemie
outfit makes a huge difference,
and the team wanted them to
be just perfect.
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DUII
• On Monday, Matthew
Ayres, 35, from Portland, was
arrested by the Clatsop County
Sheriff’s Office for driving
while under the influence of
intoxicants. He was pulled
over at 27th Street and Marine
Drive and registered a 0.19
percent blood alcohol content.
• On Monday, Mario Mutis,
31, of Seattle, was arrested by
the Oregon State Police for
DUII. He was pulled over at
Marine Drive and Sixth Street
in Astoria and registered a 0.28
percent blood alcohol content.
• On Monday, Ruben
Perez, 47, was arrested by
the Astoria Police Depart-
DEATHS
Dec. 29, 2017
EARLY, Charles R., 70, of
Astoria, died in Astoria. Cald-
well’s Luce-Layton Mortuary
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