The Hamilton Midwives

Come hang out in the park and grab an ice cream! We’d love to see all THM clients and families there.

Check out Hamilton Family Health Team for help finding a family doctor!

Mother’s Day can be a joyous, beautiful, complicated, and painful day- just like moms and mother figures, this day holds multitudes. We acknowledge everyone today who is celebrating, struggling and everything in between.

Get • Happy International Day of the Midwife 💜

Today, we celebrate midwives everywhere: the professionals who make safe, respectful and person-centred care possible for millions of pregnant people, newborns and families every day.

This year’s theme, One Million More Midwives, is both a celebration and a call to action. It recognises the incredible impact midwives already have — saving lives, improving experiences of care, and strengthening communities — while highlighting the urgent need to invest in many more. We must support midwives to practise their full scope so that health systems are stronger, outcomes are better, and rights are upheld.

Today, we celebrate everything midwives are — and everything they make possible. And we keep pushing for a world where everyone has access to a midwife’s care.

Join our virtual event today, at the link in bio.

Get • On Red Dress Day, we honour and remember the Indigenous women, girls and Two‑Spirit people who have gone missing or have been murdered in Canada.

PCMCH acknowledges the significant barriers Indigenous women, girls and Two‑Spirit people continue to face within the healthcare, child welfare and justice systems. Working in partnership with Indigenous organizations, we are committed to addressing these inequities and supporting a safer, healthier Ontario.

Learn more about the significance of by reading the MMIWG Final Report. Click on the link in our bio.

Posted • “Is this really labour?” they asked their doula.

This wasn’t what they imagined it would look like.

“Their doula reassured them with some helpful information: from a clinical perspective, they were experiencing pre-labour, but from her perspective, the baby and the client’s body were doing some important work together. Those crampy contractions were moving the cervix from a posterior position to line up with the birth canal, helping the cervix to soften, thin out and possibly dilate a little. Even better, the pre-labour contractions were nudging the baby further into the pelvis. The birthing parent’s body wasn’t just wasting time—it knew what it was doing! And that’s the key; trusting that there is no rush and that in time, contractions will strengthen and the work of labouring will begin.”
- Lenore Kilmartin

Click the link in our bio to read our blog post titled Understanding Pre-labour written my Lenore Kilmartin

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