Midwifery Care North Shore (MCNS) will be able to offer care to more women interested in midwifery services … as all going well, another midwife is soon to join the practice in 2019.
Solo-practice has played a part in Vera Berard’s decision to keep her course-load lower than the usual number of women that an individual midwife can annually provide services. Now that midwife job sharing has been supported by VCH hospital privileging system, Vera is delighted to have other midwives committed to sharing her work-load on a casual, part-time and full-time basis. Besides providing more access to services, this clarity of hospital privileging means that when Vera is off-call and away from the practice, women in care will have a known midwife that they have met during their appointments, attend their births. In rare times, when attendance by a known midwife is unfeasible, MCNS will continue to obtain coverage from Vera’s colleagues in Vancouver Coastal Health’s department midwifery and LGH division midwifery.
Vera is looking forward to soon introducing her colleagues that will be sharing her 2019 work-load.
We appreciate that the sign suggests all ways of feeding a baby are welcome! As how an individual parent feeds their baby is their choice that is to be respected. At the same time, we trust that signage like this will contribute toward parents that want to biologically feed their babies, feeling comfortable and confident to do so and that people in their community will be reminded to support babies’ right to feed, in a similar way that a stop sign or a handicap parking sign is observed.