We hit 5000 signatures! Thank you all who have been helping spread the word about this drastic desicion to close down Dekalb's Family Birth Center last week. 

Indiana and other states are seeing birth options die, week after week while huge hospitals swallow up community hospitals and force families to drive further and birth in large hospitals who do not have the capability or desire to run labor and delivery units with the care and compassion needed for birth. Access to safe evidence based care for any family who has state insurance has now been ripped from Dekalb County Indiana.  

If you have state insurance, you may be seen by a provider and a midwife at Dekalb Hospital, but you will have to drive into Allen county or Noble County to give birth.  Which means, while you learn and grow to trust your provider.  You will not give birth with that provider.  Matter of fact, if you choose to birth in Allen County at Parkview Regional Medical Center, you will soon be birthing in a teaching hospital.  

While teaching hospitals are necessary for gynecological procedures and emergency obstetric care, they are simple not going to be ran with the patients interest in mind.  They will operate for purposes of teaching an OBGYN how and what the worse case scenario will be and how to handle that situation. Essentially Parkview will be training up more OBGYN's with the mindset that birth has a timeline.  When your birth does not fit in the parameters set by "policies" then you will be introduced to the cascade of interventions.  

This is exactly the opposite direction of how birth needs to be taught to residents.  Creating more OB's who become burnt out. 

I wont stop spreading the news of how large hospital systems are damaging physiological birth.  I can't stop sharing evidence based information for families who want to know the difference.  

Please continue to share our campaign.  Please share the danger we are putting thousands of families in by having them birth in massive hospitals.  Where you are not an individual.  You are simply just another face. 

Please pray for the nurses who have to navigate the secondhand stress from providers, and families. 

Something has to change.