BC Women's Hospital:

• Online Tour

• Family Information Package

St. Paul's Hospital:

• Having Your Baby at St Paul's Hospital

Please note: Some of these resources are written more with physician and obstetrician clients in mind. Midwives tend to communicate and care for their clients more directly. For example, if you have a concern that you think might warrant a visit to the hospital always page us first. We often come to your home to assess you in labour and if you page and we do think a visit to the hospital is warranted we will meet  you there and save you some waiting time.

Home Birth Supplies Checklist Talk to your midwife if you have any questions about this list.

Homebirth Reference Site - UK Although based in the UK, this website contains some information that is also useful to those planning a home birth in Canada. 

Videos

• "Choosing Home Birth", by Ontario Midwives

• "Home or Hospital? Holding the Space for Human Birth" TEDx Talk by Saraswathi Vedam

From the College of Midwives of BC:

• Information booklet on home birth

• Statement on home birth. There are a lot of references for further reading included in this statement.

Published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)

• Canadian study on home birth by Janssen et al, September, 2009: Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician.

From the Canadian Association of Midwives:

• Position statement

CBC news story “Home birth with midwife safe as hospital”.

Vedam S, Schummers L, Stoll K, Fulton C:  Home birth: an annotated guide to the literature.

• Courses + Workshops by Brood

• Lower Mainland Childbearing Society

• Down to Birth Prenatal

• Birth by Bloom

• Baby Prep

• ekw’í7tl doula collective A network of Vancouver-based Indigenous doulas who work with midwives, doctors and birth workers to provide full-circle mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual support to mothers and families during pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum care and beyond. We connect Indigenous doulas with Indigenous families for culturally relevant and holistic birth work.

• Nesting Doula Collective A growing collective of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour who are trained in providing professional, empowering, and anti-oppressive Doula support to black, Indigenous and communities of colour.

• Brood Doula Services

• Bloom Doula + Birth Photographers

• Doula Services Association of BC

From BC Women’s Hospital:

• Power to Push Campaign

• Best Birth Clinic VBAC Patient Information Booklet

Optimal Birth BC VBAC Client FAQ Brochure

Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Guideline

Research Articles

• Holistic physiological care compared with active management of the third stage for women at low risk of postpartum hemorrhage

• Cochrane Review: Active versus expectant management for women in the third stage of labour