St. Jacobs Midwives

04/17/2025

Welcome, March babies 😊

02/06/2025

01/29/2025

Best wishes to those celebrating!

01/07/2025

Welcome our new student, Ainslie, for the next 12 weeks! .
I couldn’t be more thrilled to be joining the team at St. Jacobs Midwives for my placement. Having been born and raised in the Waterloo region I am so happy to be back to develop my skills in this amazing community.

Prior to starting the Midwifery Education Program I completed a Bachelor of Sciences in Life Sciences at McMaster, where I focused on science communication and population health. This sparked my passion for making health information and services accessible and available for all.

Outside of studying midwifery I love to read, go backpacking, and watching nature documentaries.

01/06/2025

While estimates range, roughly half of pregnancies continue past 40 weeks. So what happens then?

At 41 weeks, providers often offer a biophysical profile including:

✅ an ultrasound checking fetal movement and amniotic fluid levels, and

✅ a non-stress test consisting of fetal monitoring, assessing the fetal heart rate and it’s response to fetal
movement and/or contractions

The results from these tests can help inform potential next steps, from continuing to wait for labor to start on its own, to inducing, to electing for cesarean birth.

💬 Have you ever had a pregnancy go past 40 weeks? Tell us about your experience in the comments!
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This is a snippet from our Pregnancy Toolkit — a teaching tool perfect for doulas, midwives, OBGYNs, childbirth educators — really any professional who supports pregnant people.
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Our teaching tools uniquely equip repro health workers to support parents because…

✨ we write concise summaries + design creative diagrams for repro health ed

✨ we create inclusive + intersectional illustrations of babies + pregnant people

✨ we draw from and cite reputable and responsible sources

✨ we write with gender-inclusive terms + for reading levels from 8th grade up

✨ we use a peer-review system to assess + edit before we publish

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12/23/2024

Have a happy holiday. We will answer the phones till noon December 24th and be back December 27. If you need to urgently contact your midwifery team please use the pager.

12/10/2024

Sharing some common pregnancy terms and what they mean! We hope they help you navigate your pregnancy with ease! Any terms you’ve heard and didn’t quite understand or would like the meaning? Comment here and we will answer them for you! Posted •

12/03/2024

Postpartum pain is common no matter HOW you give birth 😫⁣⁠
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✅ The good news is that it’s usually manageable with OTC pain relievers like ibuprofen and Tylenol⁣⁠
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✅ And non-pharmaceutical options like heat and ice⁣⁠
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Yes, even for C-section mamas!⁣⁠
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👆 Go ahead and save this post for reference in those early postpartum days!!⁣⁠
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❓ Veteran mamas, what worked best to relieve your postpartum pain??⁠
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