About Aurora Midwifery
Aurora Midwifery provides exceptional pregnancy and childbirth care in Calgary. You’ll receive safe, unhurried, compassionate guidance for yourself and your family throughout your childbearing year.
We believe that for every person becoming a parent, childbirth is a profound rite of passage and an opportunity for personal growth and transformation. We honour your family’s uniqueness, providing personalized care and encouraging you to build knowledge, trust yourself, and give birth in the way that works best for you.
Philosophies of Midwifery Care
Informed Choice
Informed choice is the belief held by midwives that you are the best decision maker for your own health care.
Client Centred Care
Aurora Midwifery provides personal, individualized care that respects physical, emotional, and cultural diversity.
Continuity of Care
Midwives work in small teams, giving you a chance to get to know all of your care providers and build mutual trust with the midwife who will be attending your birth
Choice of Birthplace
Aurora Midwives have admitting privileges at all Calgary hospitals. You may also choose to birth at the Arbour Birth Center or in the comfort of your own home.
Midwifery in Alberta
In 1992, Alberta became the second jurisdiction in Canada to legally recognize midwives. It then took until 1998 to have a regulatory framework under the Health Disciplines Act established and midwives registered. In 2013, the College of Midwives of Alberta was formed and in 2019, the profession was brought under the Health Professions Act.
Midwifery services in Alberta became publicly funded by Alberta Health Services in 2009. Since that time, midwifery has grown in Alberta. Midwives attended 975 births in 2009 and, just ten years later, over 4000 in 2019. In 2021, midwives attended 5,323 births.
There are approximately 164 Registered Midwives in Alberta who provide care for approximately 10.6% of birthing people and their babies.
Mount Royal University is the only educational institution in Alberta to offer a Bachelor of Midwifery program, which started in September 2011.
Aurora Midwives
We work in small teams of 1-3 midwives to provide the best, most in-depth, personal care possible. Meet our midwives ⬇️
Acknowledgements
We are dedicated to supporting individuals of all faiths, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and gender identities. In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.