Our first march was a great success! Join us for our Next event: Friday, June 3rd, 10:30 AM
March to support Danbury midwives.
Meet at the Birthing Center Parking Lot, 94 Locust Ave., Danbury, CT.  March up to Danbury Hospital.

Please wear pink and bring respectful signs. This is a child friendly event, bring your stroller! Please carpool when possible. 

Your support matters! Show up for midwives and the mothers who need them. 

Join our public support FB Page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381663317242058

~~~~~~~~~**** WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!****~~~~~~~~~~

For over 20 years the midwives at Connecticut Childbirth and Women’s Center have helped deliver thousands of babies and created a reputation for their extraordinary level of care.
CCWC is a private practice that has had a long and wonderful relationship with Danbury Hospital, in fact, they continue to have a wonderful relationship with the doctors and nurses.
The problem started when Danbury Hospital was taken over by Nuvance Health. It became clear that the administration at Nuvance does not respect midwives, continuously finding ways to make their job difficult and most recently showing a complete overreach of power.
A patient at CCW sent a complaint to Danbury Hospital about a midwife even though the incident happened at the private practice. That same complaint was first reviewed by the midwives and it was determined that every protocol was followed, no harm was done to the patient and no outcome altered. You can read the details of this case (as much as they are able to share under HIPPA) on their Facebook page. Danbury hospital's admininstration took this one complaint from a private practice to take away all hospital privileges . It became abundantly clear to the midwives and their community that this complaint was a poor excuse to limit the midwives.
Without hospital privileges revokes this creates a staffing issue which may result in CCWC not being able to facilitate ANY hospital births.
If this complaint had happened to any doctor, a proper investigation would have taken place; instead, because of Nuvance administration’s lack of respect for midwives, they made a rash decision that took a competent midwife from our community and the mothers who need her.
SO WHAT DO WE DO? We demand that the Nuvance administration reinstate the midwife’s hospital privileges, and that they begin to show the level of respect that the midwives receive from their community, doctors and nurses. We will continue to march and email those in charge until that happens.