We welcome and care for everyone.
Our team brings years of experience supporting Indigenous families, trans and queer families, neurodivergent families, sanctuary families (people with precarious immigration status who face barriers to medical care), and families planning to birth outside of a hospital.
As Registered Midwives, we provide primary medical care during pregnancy, birth and for the first six weeks postpartum.
Midwifery care is rooted in informed family-centered decision-making, continuity of care throughout pregnancy and birth, and choice of birth place.
At Strathcona Midwifery, we honour the pregnant person and their family as decision makers and view our role as facilitators of care.
We offer our expertise, evidence-based health information, community standards of care, and medical, holistic, and traditional alternatives to support your decision making process.
Through continuity of care we form trusting relationships with families to support positive birth experiences.
The clients we serve have the choice of home or hospital birth. By blending the basic elements of midwifery practice with a dedication to family-centered care, we strive to make our midwifery care accessible and dynamic.
All midwifery services are covered under BC’s public health insurance. We also accept a few private-pay patients each month who need our services but do not have BC public health insurance.
“If you are looking for a team that will provide you with excellent mental, physical and emotional care during your pregnancy, this is the midwifery clinic. We were incredibly blessed to have been under Cora and Stephanie’s care during our pregnancy. We found our appointments to be always on time, never rushed, and very informative. After a frustrating couple of appointments with doctor’s office, we decided to explore the midwifery option.
During one of our first appointments, Cora spent almost 15 minutes looking for our lil one’s heartbeat. You can only imagine how relieved I was when I heard the heartbeat. They always provided us with all the options available during our pregnancy and allowed us to make the decisions. We were under Cora’s care at BC Women’s Hospital during labor & delivery and throughout the entire duration, they remained calm and composed, and provided us with positive affirmations to get our baby out safely. Even after we were discharged from the hospital, Cora and Stephanie were always available for any questions we had. Cora was the one who followed up with the home appointments.
Looking back at the entire pregnancy, I have no doubt that we had the best medical support one could ever wish for and all credit goes to the Strathcona Midwifery.”
— SHILPA, client