The facility was built for birth. It wasn’t built for heart attacks and surgeries and broken bones and x-rays and then adapted for family-centred births.  The design is family and birth friendly.  The birth rooms are built for the comfort of birthing.  Large rooms feature fireplaces, music players, broad beds, rocking chairs, huge baths, space […]

I hope that you often hear that nurses are the backbone of our health care system. Midwives certainly say it often enough that you should have heard it! Nurses are the health care providers who are right there on the front lines. They are evaluating, monitoring, treating, reporting, documenting and caring. They tell you that […]

For most of humanity’s existence on this planet, we have been moving all day, every day. We had to move to survive. We were mostly nomadic, changing our living location with the seasons in order to follow our food sources. Our movement was natural and our bodies have evolved to require this natural movement in […]

Well…  Like many myths, there is a grain of truth in a largely fictional story.  Once when I was telling a couple that some piece of false information was myth the dad pointed out that myths are not, technically, false.  They are narratives intended to communicate a larger truth – sometimes universal, sometimes culturally specific.  […]