Growing demand for midwives in northern Ontario – CBC

Last year 27% of expectant moms in Ontario who requested a midwife were not able to get one

Mar 06, 2017

Kyla Boiteau says she first became interested in midwifery after watching her sister give birth to her nephew, when Boiteau was just 19 years old.

Now the first-year midwifery student from Manitoba is studying what she calls her passion, at Laurentian University in Sudbury.

Boiteau is one of just 30 students who were accepted into the program last fall. Only two other schools in Ontario — McMaster and Ryerson — offer similarly sized midwifery programs.

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