Birthing centres, midwifery and maternal care are making it into the news across the North!

2011

Maternal health begins at home
Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 28, 2011

2010

Ungava policy change catches pregnant women unawares

Nunatsiaq News, December 10, 2010

Birth of a notion: Inuit experience bears lessons for everyone

Ottawa Citizen, November 29, 2010

Inuit midwife delivers in the outback

Ottawa Citizen, November 28, 2010

It takes a village: A revolution in maternity care in Canada's Far North is changing the way babies are delivered around the world

Ottawa Citizen, November 27, 2010

The waiting game: Ottawa residence helps medical evacuees make the best of birth situations

Ottawa Citizen, November 27, 2010

Maternity birthing, human baby simulators for Nunavut nursing students

Nunavut Arctic College News, October 27, 2010

Training and hiring of midwives in the North
Senator Charlie Watt
Debates of the Senate, June 9, 2010


Aboriginal babies more likely to die: access to urban health care doesn't lower mortality rates

CBC News, June 17, 2010

Inuit mothers fight lonely battle for their children's health

Globe and Mail, June 5, 2010

Greenland's success shows Canada's child mortality disgrace
Globe and Mail, May 16, 2010

Cambridge Bay celebrates birth, closer to home

Nunatsiaq News

Nunavut government finds a new way to guard infant health

Nunatsiaq News

For Inuit, dying begins at birth

Study: Smoking, substance abuse, overcrowding and poverty all linked to high infant death rate in Inuit regions

Nunatsiaq News

Harper should focus on Canada if he wants to better child health: Inuit leader

Canadian Press