It really works’: Alberta maternity group calls for midwives in Indigenous and rural communities – CBC
The practice of traditional midwifery is something that was taken away from traditional midwives,’ says doula
Apr 26, 2018
Picture a woman days away from childbirth, leaving her small community and being marooned away from her family and friends in order to give birth in a hospital in a big city.
Danielle Voyageur, a doula, meets Indigenous pregnant women just like this regularly in Edmonton.
“(They’re) isolated from family and friends and the support system she would have had in her own community,” Voyageur said. “I want to change this.”
