Prenatal – Midwifery Services
Midwifery Services will begin accepting referrals in the Interlake-Eastern health region on November 1, 2025. In the meantime, learn what a midwife can offer you.
Prenatal Care in the Interlake-Eastern Region
Prenatal care is important because it helps each pregnancy to be as healthy as possible. We want to ensure that every pregnant person in our region can receive supportive and culturally inclusive prenatal care, as close to home as possible.
Accessing Midwifery Services in Interlake-Eastern RHA
When you find out you are pregnant, you can:
- Tell your family doctor or nurse practitioner you are interested in family medicine obstetrics and/or midwifery and/or
- Self-refer by calling 204-482-2150 or emailing [email protected]
Family doctors and midwives both specialize in low-risk prenatal and birth care. Both prioritize relationships, client education and careful health screening. And both want you to have the healthiest pregnancy experience possible.
The midwifery team in the Interlake-Eastern region is small, and availability is limited. However, every pregnant person can count on receiving high quality prenatal care.
Who are Midwives?
Midwives are healthcare providers for prenatal, labour and birth, newborn, and postpartum care. Pregnancy is viewed as a state of health and childbirth as a normal process. Midwives work with each pregnant person and their family to identify their unique physical, social and emotional needs, and to support them in having their needs met.
Midwives provide the following:
Prenatal Care
- Order all necessary prenatal testing (blood work, ultrasounds, etc.)
- Measure vital signs and listen to the fetal heart rate
- Prenatal counseling
- Information about your choices for pregnancy and birth
- Offers drop-in visits
- Connect you an Indigenous Elder for support, ceremonies and teachings
During Birth
- Care and management for low-risk pregnant people during labour and birth
- Emergency management of urgent concerns
After the Baby is Born
- Infant feeding support, feeding plans and breastfeeding medicine
- Postpartum and newborn care for six to eight weeks
- Early parenting education
Other Services offered by midwives
- Prescribe and administer vaccines and medications when indicated
- Family planning and contraception
- Consult with specialists when needed
- Offer complementary therapies related to pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and postpartum care
For more information call 204-482-2150 or email [email protected]
Giving Birth at Selkirk Regional Health Centre
Midwives and the family medicine obstetrics team attend labour and births for low-risk pregnancies at Selkirk Regional Health Centre. This includes:
- Supportive care from an excellent team nurses, midwives, and doctors
- Epidurals
- Induction of labour
- Cesarean sections (C-sections) when needed (from our surgical team on site)
Please Note: Homebirths are not yet available in the region. Trial of labour after cesarian-section or Vaginal Birth After Cesarean-Section (VBAC) is also not currently available in the IERHA.
Excellent Resources for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
Canadian Midwives: Having a Baby – Respect, Choice, Support
Canadian obstetrics and gynecology: Sex & U
