Community Midwives of Ontario

Community Midwives of Toronto was founded in 1994, the same year that midwifery was legislated in Ontario. We are a group practice of ten registered midwives. We are a teaching practice and the midwives are clinical preceptors to the midwifery students from the Bachelor of Health Science in Midwifery program. We attend births at your home, at the Toronto Birth Centre, and at St. Michael’s Hospital.

There are midwives currently at our practice who are fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Persian.

Midwives work as independent, primary caregivers, and they are funded to provide care to clients and their families during pregnancy, birth and the first six weeks postpartum. Their services are an alternate to, not in addition to, medical and nursing care for normal pregnancy and childbirth. If complications do arise, they work in a team with doctors and nurses.

They also offer prenatal classes. Topics include common questions at the end of pregnancy, how to identify and manage early labour, preparation for labour and birth, physiology of labour and birth, options for birth and preparation for life with your new baby.

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