Midwifery Care or Physician Care?
If you’d like to have a Midwife follow your pregnancy, drop everything and call the Maison de Naissance or fill out the corresponding forms NOW!!! Spots for midwives fill up fast, in Montreal the demand far outweighs the supply of midwives so the earlier you call the better.
A Maison de Naissance or, Birth House is an out of hospital birth center run by certified Midwives. The island of Montreal currently has five Maisons de Naissance; in Pointe Claire, Cote des Neiges, Le Plateau, Montreal-Est and Montreal-North. You can also be followed by midwives at the clinique communautaire Pointe-Saint-Charles however they don't currently have a maison de naissance so birth would take place either at home or in hospital.
Important things to know about Midwifery Care in Montreal:
Midwives in Quebec are mandated to provide healthcare for low risk pregnancies only. If a pregnancy becomes high risk at any time, care will be transferred to an OB-Gyn.
A Maison de Naissance or, Birth House is an out of hospital birth center run by certified Midwives. The island of Montreal currently has five Maisons de Naissance; in Pointe Claire, Cote des Neiges, Le Plateau, Montreal-Est and Montreal-North. You can also be followed by midwives at the clinique communautaire Pointe-Saint-Charles however they don't currently have a maison de naissance so birth would take place either at home or in hospital.
Important things to know about Midwifery Care in Montreal:
Midwives in Quebec are mandated to provide healthcare for low risk pregnancies only. If a pregnancy becomes high risk at any time, care will be transferred to an OB-Gyn.
- Midwives are holistic care practitioners. Expect longer prenatal appointments. Midwives are tasked with not only your physical care but also your emotional well being.
- Midwives help prepare you to cope with your labour.
- Midwives can not provide pharmacological pain relief during labour (ie. epidural analgesia).
- Each midwifery group is associated with a local hospital and offers home birth options.
- Midwives follow your baby for the first 6 weeks of baby's life.
Here is the contact information for all six teams:
Maison de Naissance Pointe Claire
180 avenue Cartier Pointe-Claire (Québec) H9S 4S1 514 697-1199 Website |
Maison de Naissance Cote des Neiges
6560, Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges Montréal (Québec) H3S 2A7 514 736-2323 Website |
Maison de Naissance Marie-Paule Lanthier
9600 rue St Denis Montréal (Québec) H2M 1P2 514-908-4714 Website |
Maison de Naissance Jeanne-Mance
1822 rue Ontario Est Montréal (Québec) H2K 1T7 514 527-2361 ext. 2530 Website has instructions to fill out a form and send to: suivigrossesse.accouchement.ccsmtl@ssss.gouv.qc.ca |
If after reading this you decide you prefer having a physician following your pregnancy you have another decision to make...
Next: Family Doctor or Ob-Gyn?
Next: Family Doctor or Ob-Gyn?
Part 2 of Pregnant in Montreal?
Copyright © 2016 Heather Collins, Birth Doula