Montfort Hospital to launch groundbreaking midwifery program

Some mothers who give birth at Montfort Hospital will now have the option of heading home early where they and their newborn will get house calls from a midwife.
Funding for the first program of its kind in Canada — a hybrid of physician-assisted birth and midwife postpartum care — is part of an expansion of midwifery services across the city announced Saturday.
Montfort’s postpartum care program after low-risk births aims to tackle complications new mothers sometimes experienc