Midwifery is rooted in the natural approach. Pregnancy and birth are considered fundamentally healthy processes which have many normal variations; it is normal part of life, not a medical condition…Only when complications occur which are beyond the midwife’s expertise, is the woman transferred to obstetric care. M.Steiger
All over the world there exists in every society a small group of women who feel themselves strongly attracted to giving care to other women during pregnancy and childbirth. Failure to make use of this group of highly motivated people is regrettable and a sin against the principle of subsidiary. Dr. Kloosterman, Chief of OB/GYN, Univ. of Amsterdam, Holland
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A midwife (link to Association of Ontario Midwives) is a registered health care professional who provides primary care to low-risk women throughout their pregnancy, labour and birth and provides care to both mother and baby during the first six weeks following the birth. Midwives work together in group practices. During regularly scheduled visits to the midwifery practice, midwives provide clinical examinations, counseling and education. In 2004, Ontario midwives celebrate the completion of ten years of regulated and funded midwifery. Ontario was the first province in Canada to regulate and legislate midwifery.The profession is now regulated in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec.
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| Midwifery Services of Durham
Now accepting clients
Good news! We have recently added two more midwives to our practice to help with the increased demand for midwifery in our area. Now we have new openings for pregnant women looking for a midwife with due dates in 2008/2009! We serve all of Markham and Durham and we are proud to have been delivering babies at Markham Stouffville Hospital for 15 years. A midwife is a regulated health care professional in Ontario, a primary health-care provider and completely paid for by the Ministry of Health. Phone: (905) 427-5407
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Diversity Midwives Location: (Warden Ave. & Sheppard Ave. East), 3410 Sheppard Ave. East, Suite 202, Scarborough, Ontario, M1T 3K4 Phone:(416) 609-8187 Fax: (416) 609-3944 email . Catchment area:
North to Davis Road in Newmarket, South to the Lakeshore, West to Don Mills Road, East to Whitby-Pickering townline
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"The practice of midwifery is the assessment and monitoring of women during pregnancy, labour, and the post-partum period and of their newborn babies, the provision of care during normal pregnancy, labour, and post-partum period, and the conducting of spontaneous normal vaginal deliveries."
The woman is the client of the midwife and the primary decision-maker during childbearing. Midwives use the terms client and woman to refer to the woman and those family members or support people as identified by the woman. College of Midwives of Ontario
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There are seven registered midwives working from this location.
North Don River Valley Midwives serve York Region, North York, Thornhill, Richmond Hill, Downsview, Maple, and Woodbridge. They are located at 7089 Yonge Street, Suite 200 in Thornhill, Ontario.Tel: (905) 709-0093, Fax: (905) 709-8565
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Right across Canada, provincial governments are regulating and licensing midwives in an effort to respond to consumer demand for gentler, kinder obstetric practices. Like many government programs, the midwifery movement is losing its alternative nature and becoming more and more like the medical model it was supposed to replace.Instead of truly opening up choice for women - grown women who chose to get pregnant, chose to stay pregnant and then choose to give birth naturally without medications - the regulation of midwifery has created yet another controlled member of the medical monopoly on caring.
Gloria Lemay, a fascinating Vancouver midwife, a living legend and a story about her legal battle to keep the professional independency.
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