COMMUNITY MIDWIVES OF BRANTFORD
  • Intake Form
  • About Us
    • Our Midwives
    • Birth Stories
    • Location
    • Contact
    • Student Evaluation
  • What is Midwifery?
  • Pregnancy
    • Pregnancy Care for Clients
    • When to Call your Midwife
    • Working with Students
    • Pregnancy Resources
    • Booklist
    • Crisis Lines
  • Birth
    • Home and Hospital Birth
    • Midwifery Care During Birth
    • Preparing for Birth
  • Postpartum
    • Care for Clients After Birth
    • Care for the Newborn
    • When to Call Your Midwife
    • Breastfeeding
    • Leaving Midwifery Care
    • Midwifery Care Evaluation Form

When to call your midwife

Always page your midwife day or night if you have an urgent concern.
 Page: 1-866-906-0157 and ask for the appropriate midwife 
Postpartum – Client
It is important that you page a midwife immediately if you experience any of the following symptoms during your postpartum:
  • Fever of greater than 38 degrees C/ 100.4 degrees F
  • Signs of a bladder infection
  • Sore, reddened, painful, hard, hot area on your breast/chest with or without a fever and flu-like symptoms
  • You have persistent uterine tenderness
  • Your vaginal discharge smells foul (like rotting meat, or pus) It should smell like normal period but a bit stronger
  • You are completely soaking through a maternity pad , front to back , side to side in 30 minutes or less or the flow becomes significantly heavier than it has been, unrelated to activity
  • You pass more than 1 large blood clot
  • Ongoing feelings of depression, uncontrolled crying, inability to sleep or eat, extreme anxiety or agitation
  • Sore reddened, painful, hot area on your leg, especially the calf
  • Severe chest pain
 
Postpartum – Baby
  • Poor colour – blue or gray face or chest
  • If the newborn has not urinated or passed meconium in the first 24 hours after the birth
  • Baby is lethargic and is not interested in feeding for greater than 8 hours
  • Repetitive projectile vomiting
  • Fever of greater than 38 degrees C/ 100.4 degrees F
 
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Community Midwives of Brantford

​217 Terrace Hill Street, Suite 100,
​Brantford, ON
N3R 1G8
Email: CMOBon98@gmail.com
Telephone: (519) 751-6444
Pager: 
1-866-906-0157
Fax: (519) 751-9196



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  • Intake Form
  • About Us
    • Our Midwives
    • Birth Stories
    • Location
    • Contact
    • Student Evaluation
  • What is Midwifery?
  • Pregnancy
    • Pregnancy Care for Clients
    • When to Call your Midwife
    • Working with Students
    • Pregnancy Resources
    • Booklist
    • Crisis Lines
  • Birth
    • Home and Hospital Birth
    • Midwifery Care During Birth
    • Preparing for Birth
  • Postpartum
    • Care for Clients After Birth
    • Care for the Newborn
    • When to Call Your Midwife
    • Breastfeeding
    • Leaving Midwifery Care
    • Midwifery Care Evaluation Form