11/10/2025
🤱 B.C. midwives worry changes to scope of practice will limit mental health support. Katie DeRosa · CBC News. Please keep conversations civil and respectful 👇
Anniken Chadwick worries this will cut off a key lifeline for pregnant women struggling with their mental health.
When Chadwick was pregnant with her first child, she found herself battling extreme anxiety and intrusive thoughts.
The mom from Sunshine Coast BC Canada said her midwife referred her to a perinatal mental health team.
“I was struggling so much. So I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have the midwife to take the reins with that for me," Chadwick said.
“Stripping that away from [midwives] just feels like such a backwards step."
Angie Knott, executive director of the Midwives Association of B.C., says not every patient has a family doctor or obstetrician-gynecologist.
“There are challenges with access, for example, to family physicians,” Knott said. “So this directive potentially delays really important care.”
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Anniken Chadwick says her midwife referred her to a perinatal mental health program when she was pregnant with her first child. (Submitted by Anniken Chadwick).
