Birth in bomb shelters: Ukrainian midwives look to Canada for training

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Midwives in Ukraine want women facing labour during the war to be offered that choice of where to give birth. They are looking to Canada as an example of how to make it happen.

Olena Boiko recalls being in a state of shock when nurses began to wheel her on a gurney toward the basement bomb shelter while she was in labour to give birth to her first child., causing families in Boiko's town of Lviv in the western region of the country to live under the constant threat of missile attacks.

Midwives in Ukraine want women facing labour during the war to be offered that choice of where to give birth.In a large wooden chalet tucked away in a remote village in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, a group of about 30 midwives gathered around Ottawa midwife Betty-Anne Daviss on Friday as she explained how to deliver babies outside of the hospital and how the practice is regulated in Canada.

That has left them to make difficult decisions about what to do when women cannot, or will not, go to the hospital. Anastasia Menzhynska, the midwife who heads the new association, said she's had to deliver babies in bomb shelters, and even coach women in occupied territories through their labour online.

Daviss, who has previously travelled to Guatemala and Afghanistan, has trained the Ukrainian midwives on what to do in cases of postpartum hemorrhage. She has also taught them how to proceed when the baby is not in a good position for birth, if its shoulder gets stuck, or the mother is having twins, and how to resuscitate an infant that is not breathing.

 

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The Canadian media's selective sense of moral outrage.

Canada has a lot of births in bomb shelters?

Then move to the area where Biden and Zelensky were meeting today, no bombs or violence there

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