Maternity

Choosing a hospital to have your baby is an important decision. At Bridgeport Hospital, you and your baby will be cared for by a skilled team of maternity specialists from board-certified physicians, nationally certified nurses, to experts in high-risk pregnancies. That’s why so many expecting parents trust Bridgeport Hospital.

In the rare event you require special medical care during your pregnancy and/or labor, you rest assured knowing you are in one of the most sophisticated hospitals in the area with experts in treating women with high-risk pregnancies and specialists in newborn care from one of the country’s leading children’s hospitals, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital.

Yale New Haven Health is proud to be recognized by the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program for educating parents about safe sleep practices for newborns. The certification was created by Cribs for Kids ®, a national infant safe sleep organization dedicated to preventing infant sleep-related injuries and deaths due to sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and accidental suffocation. Yale New Haven Health holds a bronze-level, system-wide designation.

Bridgeport Hospital has a team of skilled nurses specializing in obstetrics and gynecology and are specially certified by national organizations. All staff and physicians in Labor & Delivery are certified through the National Certification Corporation (NCC) in Electronic Fetal Monitoring. More than half of the nurses in our postpartum unit are certified by NCC in Maternal Newborn Nursing. Our Labor and Delivery nurses specialize in helping patients give birth. Postpartum nurses have experience in caring for patients and their babies after birth. If you choose to breastfeed, our postpartum nurses have specialized lactation training and can help you get started.