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04/09/2026

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03/28/2026

Letter to the Editor:
Birthing center vital to Aquidneck Island

As a community doula, I work for families – not hospitals. I attend births in every setting, with every type of provider. I am the only birth worker who sees all of it, and because I answer to families, I can speak freely about what I witness.

Closing the Newport Birthing Center would be a tragedy – in the most literal sense. People will be harmed. Some may die.

Here is what you must understand: birth does not wait. You cannot tell your body to hold on while you drive over two bridges to Women & Infants. Think of a time your own body demanded immediate attention – could you have driven to Providence? Neither can a woman in active labor.

I am almost always the first call when a mother doesn't know what to do. I expect that if this center closes, I will be catching babies on the bridge, on Route 4, on I-95. When those babies arrive in my hands instead of an infant resuscitation team's, some will not survive. When mothers climb into ambulances not equipped for postpartum hemorrhage, some will not survive either.

I have stood at the bedside of a nurse with trembling hands giving rescue breaths to a baby less than a minute old. I have watched a mother go ash-gray from blood loss, too weak to hold her child. Until it is real to you, you cannot fully comprehend what you are authorizing.

This is not a financial spreadsheet. These are lives. Brown University Health knows the consequences. History will remember this decision. Your call.

Stefanie Gallo, Newport

The writer is a certified perinatal doula and lactation counselor.
(Published in the Providence Journal 3/28/26)

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