May 4th – The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) issued a News Release reiterating its support for publicly-funded, well-integrated midwifery. View the SOGC PDF for details.
Tune in to the “A” Morning show on Ottawa’s “A” Channel next Tuesday April 19 at 9:30 AM to hear midwife Wendy Huculak (from East Ottawa Midwives) talk about Midwifery and promote our next information session in Blackburn Hamlet!
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.
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.
by Elizabeth Payne, The Ottawa Citizen, April 11, 2010.
Every birth is a miracle, of course. But the arrival of Lily Luck-Henderson, just after midnight last Tuesday morning at the General campus of the Ottawa Hospital, was something else as well. Lily was breech, as are about four per cent of babies, meaning she emerged from her mother’s womb bottom first, rather than head first. But, unlike most breech babies born in Canada in recent years, Lily was delivered vaginally, rather than by Caesarean section.
That’s why Consumers Supporting Midwifery Care will be in Kemptville on March 31 to host an information session for women in Leeds-Grenville who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant.
A new study suggests that natural childbirth can make mothers more responsive to their children as the debate over natural vs. Caesarean section birth continues.
For nearly half a decade it’s been illegal for midwives to perform home births, but they’re still being done. A special report from the home-front lines of baby delivery.
