Category: midwifery
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On Competence In Vaginal Breech
With some of the recent published changes in the Alberta Midwifery competencies and standards of practice, and the increase in discourse around pregnant folks desiring more options for vaginal breech birth, this topic comes up pretty often during prenatal care. I really love how Breech Without Borders (BWB) builds breech skill sets. I’ve taken a…
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Choosing A Midwife
Registered Midwives are autonomous, primary maternity caregivers who are experts in supporting physiologic birth. Under the midwifery model of care, midwives are responsible for providing compassionate, non-authoritarian, individualized, evidence based care that reflects and respects the birthing person’s identity, personal values, autonomy, their knowledge about their body, their pregnancy and their own unique circumstances. How…
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Origin Story
To be clear, I do not share my birth stories to malign or glorify any one type of caregiver or birth location. Mistreatment during birth can happen with all types of caregivers and in all birthing locations just as all caregivers are also capable of providing exceptional care in all birthing locations, throughout all outcomes.…
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Awareness Of The Outcome Focus
I have officially finished my first semester of midwifery school. The cycle has come to a close and I’m left to reflect on what that time has offered, taught and inspired within me. Anatomy and physiology remains my biggest takeaway and I’m grateful for the deepening of knowledge that I’ve already found connecting the finer…
Mockingjay Midwifery 