About Foothills Midwifery

The Foothills Midwives are unique to be the only midwifery practice in Alberta completely integrated into a collaborative practice. This means we are embedded into the scheduled rotation of the High River Maternity clinic health care providers. This provides several advantages to you as the client. You don’t have to go on a wait list for a chance at having midwives involved in your care team. It also means the High River Maternity Clinic team has a generalized mindset of birth as a normal healthy physiological event. For instance, specialized tubs have been installed into each birth room. Water labor and water birth are offered to women who have normal, low risk, labors desiring unmedicated birth. As part of the team, the midwives work seamlessly with the obstetrical backup in case of emergency. This eliminates the need for transfer of care if you should need specialized assistance during your stay in High River. This does not preclude a transfer to a city hospital should you or your baby be deemed high risk and no longer eligible for care in High River.

Categories

• Physical Health

  ---

  

  Midwives / Doula

  ---