For many rural families, access to high-quality maternity and newborn care close to home is greatly needed. Midwives offer both hospital and home birth, depending on the resources available in the community and the individual circumstances of each client.
Rural midwives provide community-based care working collaboratively with doctors, nurses, ambulance attendants and others. They frequently provide professional consultation on labour management skills, low intervention rates and low resource settings. A map showing the various maternity care providers in communities across the province is available on the Perinatal Services BC website.
It is important that all families living in BC have access to essential health services. Many families travel long distances to access midwifery care. The MABC, together with provincial and local governments, is working to address this issue. If you cannot find a midwife in your community, please let us know here.
The MABC is working hard to increase the sustainability of rural midwifery in BC through two programs: the Rural Support Program (RSP) and the Rural Midwives Locum Program (RMLP):
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