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Midwives Launch Campaign to Promote Safety of Home Birth

… The Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM) has launched a campaign to promote midwifery-attended home birth as a safe and responsible choice. "Midwives attend births at home, in hospital and in birth centres," says Elizabeth Brandeis, RM, president of the …

Birth Centre FAQ

… Who can give birth at a birth centre? To give birth at a birth centre, you must: have a healthy, low risk (uncomplicated) pregnancy have a … served basis. It is important to discuss and prepare a back-up plan with your midwife for a home birth or hospital birth   in the rare event the birth centre is full when you are in …

Deck the Halls for Holiday Home Births Part I

… fourth child was four days overdue on December 25, 2005. The snow was blowing outside her home in Kilworth (near London) and her mother had started preparing the Christmas dinner she’d … Sarah’s sister and her sister’s two children (a one-year-old and an infant, who’d been born at home two weeks earlier) were there, along with Sarah’s husband and her three children, aged … she went upstairs to spend some time on her own. Her midwife, Jane Erdman (who had attended the births of her three other children, two of them at home), arrived at the house wearing a Santa …

Birth Safety by the Numbers: Home and Hospital

… You Have Given Birth Before Newborn outcomes by planned place of birth A Canadian review of four research … the baby breathe, and/or to help its heart beat) Further, clients who planned to give birth at home were less likely to have a baby with an Apgar score* below 7 at 5 minutes than those who … Newborn outcomes by planned place of birth: you have had a baby before Newborn outcomes Planned home birth Planned hospital birth Intrapartum stillbirth and neonatal death within 28 days 0.8 …

Why Give Birth at a Birth Centre?

… Birth centres offer a home-like setting Ontario’s  birth centres include the following features: large, private, comfortable birthing rooms special amenities ( like large birth tubs and suspended birth slings ) to provide …

Giving Birth

… Midwives view labour and birth as a profound time in the lives of everyone involved. Choosing a midwife to provide your care typically means that when it comes time to give birth, you and your baby will be cared for by someone you've met before—someone who knows you … you'll make in consultation with your midwife. For example, you can choose to: give birth at home, in hospital or, in some communities , at a birth centre labour in the water and/or have a …

Birth Centre Safety

… education and training that midwives undergo significantly contributes to the safety of birth centre births in Ontario. Midwives: are regulated health professionals In Ontario, … with Canadian research that shows excellent health outcomes associated with midwife-attended home births. Home births and birth centre births have many important aspects in common including: midwives as …

Water Birth

… What is water birth? Water birth is when you have your baby in a deep pool of water. Water birth is different … where you plan to have your baby the possible out-of-pocket cost to rent/buy a birth pool for a home water birth  Water birth is not recommended when: you go into labour preterm (three weeks … your due date) you are having more than one baby (e.g., twins or triplets) you are planning a home birth and don’t have access to safe, clean water you have an active infection such as …

Hospital Birth FAQ

… but not both. Midwives are primary care providers who specialize in low risk pregnancy and birth. This means that unless there is a complication, your midwife will provide all the care you need at your hospital birth. What hospital will I give birth at? Midwives provide care in the hospital where they have hospital privileges. Hospital …

What Happens at a Hospital Birth?

… your labour over the phone or in person. Your first in-person assessment(s) usually happens at home. Sometimes, your midwife will ask you to meet them at the hospital in a place called … Regardless of where your first in-person assessment(s) happens, you will be admitted to a birthing room once you are in active labour Active labour is when contractions are: around five … people can’t talk through them strong enough to open the cervix so the baby can move into the birth canal . Labour and birth At the hospital, your midwife will continue to closely monitor …

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