[NorthernPixie]

I'm moving home to Canada in January and hope to be needing a midwife and doula in the east Ottawa/Orleans neighbourhood soon. Any suggestions?

 

[Surfer Rosa]

For MWs, call the Collective: they're on Montreal Road. Call as soon as possible-they fill up quickly. Alternately, there's the Midwifery Group of Ottawa at Carling/Bronson. Good luck!

By Mail: The Midwifery Collective of Ottawa
150 Montreal Road, Suite #210
Ottawa ON K1L 8H2

Email:

Phone:613-730-bebe(2323)

 

[AliceGeorge]

There's also the Prescott-Russell midwives who are in Orleans. 613-590-1711.

Alice

 

[sanguine_speed]

Alice, is that Sages-Femmes?

You are one lucky duck if you're moving to that end. Betty-Anne Daviss practices in your end of town. She is the one who published *the* definitive study on homebirth in the BMJ along with her husband. She is also the one who facilitated my having a vaginal breech birth in Ottawa. She is a real midwife.

 

[AliceGeorge]

sanguine_speed, yeah, that's sages-femmes. I had my baby before Betty-Anne joined them. I don't know her. When I first got pregnant, it was only Frederique Picker, the Wendy Huculak joined, then another woman, now etty-Anne and Genevieve, whose last name I don't know.
Excuse my ignorance, but what's BMJ? How can I get a copy of that study?

 

[sanguine_speed]

Quote:

Originally Posted by AliceGeorge sanguine_speed, yeah, that's sages-femmes. I had my baby before Betty-Anne joined them. I don't know her. When I first got pregnant, it was only Frederique Picker, the Wendy Huculak joined, then another woman, now etty-Anne and Genevieve, whose last name I don't know. Excuse my ignorance, but what's BMJ? How can I get a copy of that study?

Betty-Anne founded the Midwifery Collective, and it ran out of her home for a long while. She recently left them.
Here you go

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7505/1416

 

[AliceGeorge]

Great thanks! I'll have a read.
Why did she leave them?

Alice

 

[sanguine_speed]

I believe she was interested in pursuing midwifery that was more holistic and interested in informed choice. However, her reasons are her own and I can't speak for her.
I have no qualms telling you that my second midwife told me I would simply have to have a c-section if my baby was breech. Thankfully, my water broke at 33 weeks while Betty-Anne was still around. She was going to be away around my due date, and I'd have been thrown to the wolves.

 

[AliceGeorge]

Good that she was there for you. I ended up having a cesarean, but for very different reasons. I had planned a home birth, so totally not what I'd wanted!

Alice