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10 Great Reasons to Have a Midwife
- Appointments long enough to answer your questions, talk through your concerns, get to know you, and offer you detailed information on prenatal testing, birth options, and post birth care.
- Continuity: Midwives known to you caring for you and your baby during your pregnancy, birth, and the 6 weeks after delivery.
- Comprehensive information about all pain relief options, with support for your decisions.
- Urgent and emergency availability of your midwives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Choice of in-hospital or homebirth, including water birth.
- Encouragement and respect so that you can give birth safely, and with dignity
- Access to on-site group prenatal classes.
- Quick referral to specialist care if needed.
- Post delivery visits in your home to assess your baby’s growth and development, closely monitor normal conditions like newborn jaundice, and support breastfeeding.
- All services are fully funded by OHIP.
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