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Welcome to the CSMC Website!
Consumers Supporting Midwifery Care is a grassroots group of Ottawa area consumers advocating for midwifery care. We are working to ensure that women in Ottawa have greater access to midwifery care for their births.
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and we will keep you posted on midwifery-related issues and events.
If you have constructive or positive feedback, regarding your Midwifery experience, and you would like to have your feedback shared ANONYMOUSLY with Consumers and with Midwifery Practices, please contact us at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Save the date: The Annual Midwifery Picnic will take place on Saturday, June 9 at Andrew Haydon park (same place as last year), from 11am to 2 pm.
View the poster [English] [French]
The last Consumers Supporting Midwifery Care group meeting took place on Tuesday April 10, 2012 from 7:30pm to 9pm at Extraordinary Baby Shoppe (1131 Wellington St).
Choice. Access. Midwives.
The Canadian Association of Midwives (CAM) would like to commemorate this May 5th, the International Day of the Midwife, by calling attention to the lack of access to midwifery care faced by most Canadian women.
Read the full press release [English] [French]
Ottawa Valley Lactation Consultants 16th Annual Breastfeeding Conference will be taking place on Thursday April 19th and Friday April 20th, 2012 at The National Arts Centre (53 Elgin Street, Ottawa).
**NEW** The Midwifery Collective of Ottawa has great news!
They are expanding and 5 new midwives will be joining as of January 2012.
They have lots of room for new clients. Check out their website for more information!
**NEW** Birth Story: Elena Rose's Birth
I thought Elena was going to be a boy, and I thought she was going to be born before her due date. I was wrong on both counts!
At my 40th week midwife appointment, I was told for the third time in a row that the babie’s head had only partially lodged in my pelvis. Since for first time moms this normally happens a week to two weeks before birth, there was some concern that I would go overdue. My husband and I had been excited at the concept of a home birth from early on, and we knew that they wouldn’t deliver at home if we went to 42 weeks.
EXCITING NEWS!!!
New midwifery practice in Ottawa South
at 4110 Albion Road.
Check out Ottawa South Midwives website for more information!
The residential schools of medicine
by Elizabeth Payne, The Ottawa Citizen, November 27, 2010.
Evacuating women out of remote communities to give birth is traumatic, harmful to communities and costly. So why is it still happening?
Mary Kumarluk's children are grown now, but memories of their births are tinged with sadness. "I cried a lot," she says of the weeks she spent in a hospital ward in Moose Factory, northern Ontario, alone and far from home. Click here to read the full story in The Ottawa Citizen.
Birthing at home: It takes a village.
by Elizabeth Payne, the Ottawa Citizen, November 28, 2010.
A revolution in maternity care in Canada’s Far North is changing the way babies are delivered around the world.
Click here to read the full story in The Ottawa Citizen.
Ottawa Hospital brings back midwife birth
By Kristy Nease, The Ottawa Citizen June 7, 2010
OTTAWA — The Ottawa Hospital has reintroduced its midwifery program after a five-year hiatus and has already seen its first two midwife-assisted births in as many years, the Midwifery Collective of Ottawa has confirmed.
Read full story in the Ottawa Citizen, click here
***The Mother-Infant Wellness Lab at the University of British Columbia is conducting a study to assess a new measure
of fear of childbirth.***
Click here for more information and to participate!
Onesie Campaign
Support midwifery in the Ottawa area by
purchasing an adorable "Caught By A Midwife" Onesie or Tee-shirt!
Click here for more information.
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