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During coronavirus hospital surge, a midwife recommends home birth
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Today in The Conversation Canada, Manavi Handa, a Ryerson University professor — and midwife of 20 years — urges healthy pregnant people to plan for home births.
Stepping into a hospital during a pandemic could expose your newborn not just to COVID-19 but also other complications generally not seen in home births, she writes. Her experience during SARS, as well as years of clinical evidence, “demonstrate the safety of home births for healthy people who have a trained midwife.” Handa also talks about additional services midwives could be called upon to perform during the pandemic: “We can stitch and prescribe, like a physician, but also start an IV and take blood, like a nurse. There are many things we can use our skills for beyond birthing.”
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Enjoy and stay safe.
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Vinita Srivastava
Director of Journalism Innovation | Senior Editor, Culture + Society
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A woman holds her newborn son right after giving birth; they are still in the birthing pool after labour at home.
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Manavi Handa, Ryerson University
During a pandemic, a home birth starts looking better every second. Midwives with their specialized skills in low-risk normal birth can be of great service.
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Stress about the coronavirus pandemic can actually increase your risk of infection, but exercise can alleviate the immune system’s stress response. Above, a lone jogger in Ottawa, on March 17, 2020.
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Asylum seekers cross the border from New York into Canada on March 18 at Hemmingford, Que., two days before Canada said it would now send those seeking asylum back to the U.S.
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blankAn airline passenger checks his smart phone at Montreal–Trudeau International Airport, Friday, March 20, 2020, as COVID-19 cases rise in Canada and around the world.
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Quebec Premier Francois Legault, right, chats with Louise Mushikiwabo, secretaire generale de la Francophonie, Tuesday, June 11, 2019 in Quebec City.
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Patrick Lacroix, Acadia University
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