News Archives - Midwifery Care North Shore

MCNS UPDATE FOR WOMEN DUE FROM NOVEMBER 2021 ONWARDS – We are offering primary care postpartum services only, until further notice…

June 12, 2021June 21, 2021 Vera Berard

MIDWIFERY CARE NORTH SHORE 24hour-7day services are temporarily on-hold to potential clients that are looking for labor and birth services the end of 2021 onwards.

We are waiting for VCH LGH to post midwifery hospital privileges and for midwives interested in working in an individual and group care model to be able to join Vera Berard RM’s team. Vera Berard RM is away in September and October, 2021. On her return in November 2021, she is welcoming women and their babies, who are due to be born in November, 2021 onward and is offering midwifery postpartum services to folk that live on the North Shore and who, are interested in receiving midwifery care after the birth of their baby. Vera gives priority to folk residing within the City of North Vancouver. MCNS full postpartum services are offered to women, who have a doctor that only provides prenatal, labor and birth services, or who have a midwife/doctor that practices out of the area where a client lives. (more…)

MCNS REFLECTIONS ON OVER A YEAR IN A PANDEMIC

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Vera Berard

Despite COVID challenges MCNS current 2020-2021 team of two, Vera Berard and Erika Mitchell have been delighted to be with laboring folk, attending their births and welcoming their babies.

Life continues, folk get pregnant and babies get born… between February 2020 and March 2021, Midwifery Care North Shore has provided care to approximately 58 families.

Our gratitude extends to the doulas, our midwifery colleagues, student midwives, our nursing and physician colleagues that assist us meet our individual clients’ needs: – 66% of babies were born via a spontaneous vaginal birth – 51% occurred in hospital and 15% at home. Our team expanded to include LGH specialist obstetrical, paediatric and anesthetic services for approximately 34% of our clientele. 12% of babies were born via an assisted vaginal birth and 22 % via a C/Section, of these 2.5% were elective and 19.5% were in labor. (more…)

MCNS Team Update

June 27, 2020June 29, 2020 Vera Berard

We are happy to reiterate that Vera and team continue to welcome clients into a partnership of care, despite now needing to live with COVID pandemic processes, as a part of daily life. We are currently welcoming clients looking for midwifery services that are due from December 2020 onwards.

Please look at our update below this one, to find information about MCNS COVID processes. Remember as BC moves into Phase 3 of our COVID pandemic that we need to all remain mindful of how we are feeling; isolating when we feel unwell, continuing with sanitizing our hands, physically distancing and wearing our masks when we are in crowded spaces inside or outside.

We are delighted to have Erika Mitchell RM join MCNS team to work-share with Vera Berard RM. She will be joining MCNS team in September 2020.

From the fall onwards, Liz Bodner RM will be working more on the Sunshine Coast and providing occasional locum services on the North Shore.

We are also thrilled to share some other practice news since our last update. In the fall last year, during BC’s annual breastfeeding week celebration (1-7 October, 2020), when Vera was in South Africa. North Vancouver City’s Mayor, Linda Buchanan, presented Bean-around-the-World-Cafe-on-5th-Street and Quayside Village Co-housing, a North Vancouver City Baby Feeding Welcome Sign in rainbow colours, to display on the outside of the building. This signage is recognition of the Café, Quayside Village and MCNS inclusive support of new families and their breastfeeding babies. (more…)