Bonus Episode | Midwives Under Assault by Hospital Administrators

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Documentary, Alternative Health, Motherhood, Maternity, Kids & Family, Hypnobirthing, Childbirth, Pregnant, Breastfeeding, Society & Culture, Birth, Home Birth, Newborn, Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Postpartum, Midwives

4.8 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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"There is something going on against midwives, against birth centers, and against choice for women." Cathy Parisi is the director of the Connecticut Childbirth & Women's Center in Danbury, Ct since 1999. The center is the only free standing birth center in Connecticut and promotes physiologic birth under the midwifery model of care, offering women choice, freedom, and empowered decision making in their care in the birth center itself or across the street at Danbury hospital. Recentl...

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0:00.0	I have one doctor come up and go, did she really just get let go for that? Because here's what I did in my office and nobody even blinked. And I've had at least three or four different physicians from the OB department come up and tell me it's impossible that they're letting her go just for that.
0:27.1	I'm here today with you guys to try and raise awareness about the fact that something is going on against midwives, against birthing centers, and against choice for women.
0:34.6	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoborthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist.
0:41.6	And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.
0:47.6	And this is the down-to-birth podcast.
0:52.2	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying
0:57.1	experience in today's medical culture?
0:59.2	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:08.1	I'm Kathy Parisi.
1:09.9	I am the midwifery and clinical director at the Connecticut Childbirth and Women's Center in Danbury, Connecticut. I have been a midwife for 27 plus years. I started off working at Yale for a couple of years as a midwife in a large practice and then got the invitation to come and join the opening of the Connecticut Childbirth and Women's Center in 1997. I have been the director there since 1999 and have seen a lot of
1:35.1	stuff happen over the years. When I first joined in 97, I received clinical privileges at
1:42.5	Danbury Hospital. And as a historical thing, I actually
1:46.7	was born in Danbury Hospital.
1:48.2	I'm from Danbury.
1:49.7	I work there for nine years as a labor and delivery
1:52.0	nurse in both the unit and as a manager of the evening
1:55.8	and nightships.
1:56.9	So I have a very long history at Danbury Hospital.
2:01.6	I'm here today with you guys to try and raise awareness about the fact that something is going on against midwives, against birthing centers, and against choice for women who want to do anything other than enter a hospital and be told what their
2:20.6	non-choices are. I have not had that experience really at Dambury Hospital, to be honest.
2:27.0	I have enjoyed very much, along with my colleagues, doing deliveries at Danbury. I find the
2:32.2	physicians, the nursing staff, the supportive staff are
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