“Bringing Birth Back” Midwifery Implementation In Nunavut by Kerstin Gåfvels Maternal Newborn Health Services Consultant, DHSS, Nunavut Circumpolar Rounds Stanton Territorial Hospital Yellowknife, NT January 28, 2010 http://ichr.ca

8. Rankin
Inlet
Birthing
Center
• Community
based
• Family
Centered
• Culturally
relevant
• More
support,
respect
and
responsibility
• Family
life
not
interrupted
• Health
promotion
• >500
babies
have
been
born
at
the
birthing
center.
• Recruitment
and
retention
issues

27. Chair
Midwife
Registrar
Midwife
Midwife
Public
GN

31. The
Inuit
Midwife
Inuit
Culture
Inuit
Values
ICM
2
generations
of
CAM
women
Midwives
evacuated
to
Association
of
birth
outside
Nunavut
Nunavut
Traditional
The
Inuit
Child
MW
&
Midwife
bearing
Knowledge
2010
women
NAC
Midwifery
Changing
Education
1950-­‐1970
society
and
2010
Births
attended
by
norms
Midwifery
Program
Teenage
pregnancy
nurses
and
midwives
Registration
Poor
maternal
or
women
were
sent
Committee
nutrition/anemia
out.
Very
few
Nurses
STI
traditional
MW
Physician
participated
in
the
Low
birth
weight
Obstetrician
Preterm
delivery
care
after
1970.
GN
Health
Canada
Neonatal
mortality
Global
standards
and
Social
problems
expectations