Demonstration in Calgary on May 5, 2008 at the McDougall Centre from noon to 1pm.
Community members from Banff, Canmore, Didsbury and Cochrane will join Calgary supporters in demonstrating for publicly funded midwifery under Alberta Health and Wellness. At the same time, sister-rallies are held in Edmonton, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge.
Alberta does not to date fund midwife services, and thus is the last province or territory in Canada to not publicly fund or publicly commit to fund midwife services in the future.
The price to hire a midwife is $3450.
Research shows, outcomes of low-risk pregnancies assisted by midwife are as safe or safer as MD assisted births (Hafner-Eaton & Pearce, 1994; Janssen, Holt & Myers, 1994, MacDorman & Singh 1998)
Improve outcomes of hard to reach and low income women
Reduce: c-sections, drug-use and medical interventions
Increase infant birth weight
Costs less than MD fees, fewer interventions and often shorter stays
Births at home or in birth centres ease the shortage of hospital beds and staff.
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