Three Guiding Principles of Midwifery
Continuity of Care
You will be seen by the same small group of midwives in a midwifery practice. These midwives will be available to provide our primary care 24hrs a day, throughout your entire pregnancy and birthing process. Midwives can stay involved in your care even if you need to see a doctor during your pregnancy or labour. Midwives spend time developing a relationship with you and provide safe, personalized care during your pregnancy, labour, birth, and for 6 weeks afterwards.
Informed Choice
Midwives see pregnancy and birth as healthy processes and profound, natural events in a person’s life. Midwives provide you with information about all your options and support you in making decisions that are right for you.
Choice of Birthplace
Midwives are primary caregivers who provide care that respects your needs, values, and dignity. A midwife will offer you the choice of where to have your baby and discuss risk/benefit of each. Huron Midwives offers births at home, clinic birth suite in Blyth, SBGHC- Walkerton Hospital, AMGH – Goderich Hospital and HPHA- Stratford Hospital.
Your birth, your decision.
Hospital births took place between Goderich, Walkerton, Stratford & London.
“Midwives do home births. They do hospital births. They do unmedicated births, they support epidurals. They are free through OHIP and I think every woman deserves the kind of prenatal and postnatal care I received.”
— PAST HURON MIDWIVES CLIENT
More on what to expect from Midwife care
Learn more about Midwife care by exploring the following content created by Ontario Midwives