Why CT hospitals are giving orange bracelets to new moms

Saturday, August 09, 2025

Colorful silicone wristbands are an iconic and often free staple accessory at all kinds of events, like musical festivals, school field days, fundraisers and more. Connecticut medical providers are also now embracing these fashion statements as a low-tech way to better care for and support mothers who have recently given birth.

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... Hundreds of pregnant patients who gave birth at Trinity Health of New England and Hartford HealthCare over the last several months are leaving with their baby, a plethora of postpartum health warning signs, and an orange bracelet with the words "I gave birth" etched in big, chunky letters.

The bracelets are designed not only to raise awareness of potential postpartum health complications among health care providers, but also to empower patients to advocate for themselves and feel "heard," said Karen Beebe, perinatal nursing professional development specialist at the Women & Infants Center at Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury.

"Birth is supposed to be a happy time," Beebe said. But, "there are these things that occur, and the more people that are aware and know about it, the better care we can give our perinatal population." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-09 10:01 PM | Reply

I think this might be a good step towards making The Handmaid's Tale reality.

Next, we start tagging the fertiles.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-08-09 10:57 PM | Reply

@#2 ... a good step towards making The Handmaid's Tale reality. ...

The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)
en.wikipedia.org(TV_series)

... The plot features a dystopia following a Second American Civil War wherein a theonomic, totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called "Handmaids", to child-bearing slavery. ...

I don't see that aspect in those orange bracelets.

Can you explain?

thx.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-09 11:06 PM | Reply

Half-joking, but felt the visceral connection when I saw the bracelets.

It's a gradual process. The same way the GOP is destroying our Democracy.

First we celebrate the new moms, then we criticize those who don't conceive.

Trump drops IVF promise, preferring to blame women for infertility
Instead of treatment, Project 2025 proposes shaming patients for premarital sex
www.salon.com

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-08-09 11:40 PM | Reply

@$ ... It's a gradual process. The same way the GOP is destroying our Democracy. ...

While I agree that the GOP destroying our Democracy is a gradual process.

But, I do not see a similar gradual process in these orange bracelets, nor have you explained that assertion.

So, what's yer got?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-09 11:57 PM | Reply

So, what's yer got?
#5 | Posted by LampLighter

That's all of it. Sorry to disappoint!

#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-08-10 02:22 AM | Reply

@#6 ... That's all of it. Sorry to disappoint! ...

Not disappointed here.

Just that I view you as more thoughtful than such a post and run comment.

{shrug}

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-10 02:27 AM | Reply

Just that I view you as more thoughtful than such a post and run comment. {shrug}
#7 | Posted by LampLighter

Like I tell the ladies before they sleep with me, "Reduce your expectations and we'll all leave happy."

#8 | Posted by censored at 2025-08-10 09:43 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Reduce your expectations and we'll all leave happy

My last contractor said the same thing. He isn't my contractor any longer. I had to do the thresholds, backsplash and glass in cabinets myself. Actually the work he did was fantastic but I did those last three things myself because I wanted a finished kitchen before halley's comet comes back.

#9 | Posted by TaoWarrior at 2025-08-10 10:19 AM | Reply