Recent media coverage about midwives, midwifery, and health care

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September 2, 2010
Ontario midwives now number over 500: new graduates start providing care this summer
Hospital News - page 29
"Jacquie Klan is one of Ontario’s newest registered midwives..."

August 20, 2010
Small Person Acquisition Project
CBC The Current - Mp3

August 3, 2010
When Ricky Williams met Arlene  Vandersloot
Toronto Star
"When Arlene Vandersloot first told her brother about her new neighbour, he shrieked..."

July 10, 2010
Download a podcast to hear a baby born at home with midwives, during the opening of "The Bottom Line #2 - Water"
CBC - Audio

July 2, 2010
U.S. home birth risk review 'political': MD
CBC
"The data and the methods taints the quality of the study..."

June 23, 2010
FAQ: Achieving maternal and child health goals
CBC
"Each year it is estimated that 500, 000 women lose their lives during pregnancy..."

June 15, 2010
Report Calls for Hundreds of Thousands New Midwives, Other Health Care Professionals
VOA News
"An international group of midwives is calling for a dramatic increase in midwifery services..."

June 10-17, 2010
Bearing the pain
NOW Magazine
"When my friend Hilary found out she was pregnant..."

June 7, 2010
World Summit on Midwifery - Call to Action
International Federation of Midwives
"Some of the worlds  most influential midwives..."

June 7, 2010
Ottawa Hospital brings back midwife births
Ottawa Citizen
"The Ottawa Hospital has reintroduced its midwifery program after a five-year hiatus..."

June 7, 2010
How to treat gestational diabetes
Sympatico Lifestyle
"One of the most common complications during pregnancy...

June 7, 2010
Secrets to fighting pregnancy fatigue
Sympatico Lifestyle
"Fatigue is common throughout pregnancy, but it is especially prevalent..."

June 7, 2010 (October 2009)
She delivers
Chatelaine
"Expectant mothers in Mexico face a difficult journey..."

May 20, 2010
Government of Canada Working to Better Integrate Foreign-Trained Midwives into Canadian Labour Market
Marketwire
"The Government of Canada is helping better integrate foreign-trained midwives..."

May 20, 2010
P.E.I. to study midwifery
CBC
"Prince Edward Island is one step closer to licensing and funding midwives..."

May 12, 2010
Provincial breastfeeding strategy needed: Groups
Parent Central
"Ontario needs a breastfeeding strategy to help new moms nourish their infants..."

May 6, 2010
Midwifery services available to North Grenville women
Your Ottawa Region Article
"Anita McCleery’s face glows as she quietly feeds her new daughter, Cicely . . ."

May 6, 2010
Women gather at Saskatchewan legislature to support midwifery expansion
Regina Leader-Post
"The thought of being in a room full of strangers while she’s trying to give birth . . ."

May 5, 2010
Journée internationale des sages-femmes
Radio-Canada (Ontario)
Audio Interview with Claudette Leduc, RM, Sages-Femmes Rouge Valley Midwives

May 4, 2010
Special Delivery 
CBC Metro Morning
Audio Interview with Katrina Kilroy RM, AOM President

April 22, 2010
Cypress Regional Hospital to offer midwifery
Prairie Post
"The Cypress Regional Hospital in Swift Current will receive funding for two full-time midwives..."

April 21, 2010
Midwifery meeting to deliver information
Your Ottawa Region Article
"Midwives are more than just women who help deliver babies at home..."

April 13, 2010
Breech Birth - All In A Day (Listen Again) 
CBC Audio Interview
"Natural breech birth deliveries are making a comeback in Ottawa"

April 12, 2010
Giving birth, the natural way
Ottawa Citizen
"Every birth is a miracle, of course. But the arrival of..."

March 19, 2010
Midwifery info session comes to Kemptville
Your Ottawa Region
"Midwives are not a thing of the past..."

March 11, 2010
Midwives welcomed
Orangeville Banner
"Stephanie McDonnell and Linda Stahl from Midwives of Headwater Hills..."

March 3, 2010
Northern Alberta midwife dies at 101
CBC
"Northerners are mourning the death of longtime Fort Chipewyan..."

February 25, 2010
Midwifery regulations in place this spring
Daily Gleaner
"New Brunswick's long delayed midwife regulations will be in place..."

February 24, 2010
Midwife rules in the works
Times & Transcript
"After much anticipation and delays, Health Minister Mary Shryer announced..."

February 18, 2010
Canadian midwife off to help in Haiti
The Westerly
"A new local to Tofino is traveling to Port-au-Prince, Haiti with two non-governmental organizations..."

January 29, 2010
Getting in touch with her body
North Bay Nugget
"Lilian Lathangue is listening to her body. There will be no hospital beds..."

January 23, 2010
Midwife revisits African villages where she once worked as a nurse
The Record
"Elsie Cressman is a woman of few words but big actions..."

January 21, 2010
Birth centre to be built in Winnipeg
CBC News, Manitoba
"Manitoba will build it's first-ever out-of-hospital birth centre in south Winnipeg..."

January 20, 2010
Emmaline Paul is first home birth of 2010
Cottage Country Now
"Bracebridge - The first home birth of the year came to new parents Stuart and Rebecca..."

January 17, 2010
Quake just a bigger reason to stay, says local midwife in Haiti
Edmonton Journal
"As Canadians are urged to head toward the embassy in Port-au-Prince..."

January 7, 2010
First Midland baby of 2010 delivered at home
The Midland Mirror
"The first baby born in Midland in 2010 came into the world not in a hospital, but in his parents’ family room..."