About Us
Family Care Midwives strive to ensure your pregnancy and birthing experience is a memorable one. We provide a safe, accessible, inclusive, and supportive environment for our diverse clientele and our midwifery team.
Raising children can be difficult but can also be a great source of pride and accomplishment. Whether your pregnancy is a surprise or planned, having a midwife beside you through pregnancy, birth and your first six weeks with a newborn, can help ensure your transition to parenthood goes smoothly.
Midwives are regulated health care providers who specialize in healthy, low-risk pregnancies. We are funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) and midwifery care is free to all residents of Ontario, including clients who do not have OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Program). We are regulated by the College of Midwives of Ontario (CMO).
We want to learn about you and help empower your choices for birthing and support your health and well-being as you grow your family.
We serve the communities within York Region, with our catchment area being from Steeles Avenue in Toronto, north to King-Bloomington Road (Richmond Hill), east to Kennedy Road (Markham) and West to Hwy 427 in Vaughan.
We do take clients beyond this catchment area, including North York, Aurora, Newmarket, Brampton, Bolton, Nobelton and Schomberg – and the surrounding areas.
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We offer both home or hospital births and have hospital privileges with Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital (across from Canada’s Wonderland).
In Ontario, when expecting a baby, you have the choice to select a midwife, obstetrician, nurse practitioner, or family doctor as your primary health care provider for your pregnancy. You can contact a midwife yourself, directly, as you do not need a referral from your doctor. Your initial intake visit is a crucial step to determine if midwifery care is right for you, considering your health and the nature of your pregnancy.
If complications arise making your pregnancy high risk, we have a network of specialists, including obstetricians and paediatricians, ready for consultations and referrals. We also collaborate with other care providers like your family doctor or a genetics counsellor, ensuring you receive comprehensive care. In cases where your pregnancy becomes high-risk, necessitating an expert like an obstetrician (situations like needing a Caesarean section), we stay actively involved, accompanying you through your journey, right up to being there for your delivery.
For any non-pregnancy-related medical issues, clients are expected to seek care with their other health care providers.
Most of our teams work in “Pods” with 2-4 midwives in each group, therefore, you will generally meet 2-4 midwives throughout your care.
In the first few appointments, we will request records from your other health care providers as needed, and/or order routine lab or ultrasound tests. We will review your medical history, and offer genetic screening tests.
Throughout the pregnancy, you will alternate meeting other midwives on your team before your due date. The pod midwives work by rotating between clinic, on-call work and scheduled off-call time.
The midwife who is on-call when you go into labour will be the primary midwife at your birth. A second midwife you know, or another from our clinic, will also come to provide newborn care at the birth.
When you arrive for a scheduled appointment at our clinic, your midwife might be off-call. Sometimes, midwives must handle clinic work even when on-call.
If your appointment coincides with your midwife being on-call and they are attending a birth, it may be rescheduled. We’ll reach out promptly to arrange a new visit. Your patience and understanding are greatly valued during these instances.
