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…
She was seven months pregnant when Russia began its brutal invasion of Ukraine, causing families in Boiko’s town of Lviv in the western region of the country to live under the constant threat of missile attacks.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
It was the first training provided by the Association of Midwives of Ukraine, which was officially formed late last year at the urging of Daviss. “There was a category of women who called and asked me to come and assist them with birth at their homes or in a bomb shelter a rocket can hit a medical facility,” Svitlana Rudchenko, a midwife from the county’s capital city Kyiv, said in Ukrainian.Article content
The problem is, Menzhynska said, midwives aren’t just lacking permission to do home births. They also do not have the training to deliver babies outside of hospital. “We had seen that people are having births in bomb shelters and subway stations and I thought they really need to get themselves organized,” Daviss said in an interview in one of the chalet’s cosy rooms.
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