Midwives have many roles when on call and taking pages, even if it is daytime. We may be sleeping following being up all night, dealing with an emergency, or delivering a baby. For this reason, we ask that you please reserve paging for EMERGENCIES ONLY.
PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE ABOUT THE FOLLOWING 519-637-2224
If it is time sensitive, please indicate that in your message, otherwise Lynda will return your call or have a midwife return your call within 48hrs
- Changing or confirming an appointment
- Inquiring when a midwife will be doing a homevisit
- Reviewing blood work or ultrasound results
- General questions- about diet, exercise, travel, COVID or other illnesses, prescriptions, work letters, etc.
PLEASE PAGE 519-631-1510 FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:
- Vaginal bleeding – (spotting is normal after having a vaginal exam or sex)
- Severe pain in your belly; abdominal pain
- Severe headache, blurred vision, new nausea or vomiting
- Waters break – please pay attention to the colour and smell of the fluid
- Decreased or lack of fetal movement
- Fever higher than 38 C (100.4 F) uncontrolled by Tylenol
- Regular contractions before 37 weeks of pregnancy
- You think you have a bladder infection
- You need to go to the Emergency Department for a problem that is not related to pregnancy and you are more than 20 weeks (5 months) pregnant. If LESS than 20 wks- please just attend the ER if concerned and inform us of the visit by calling the office afterwards
PAGE DURING LABOUR:
If this is your 1st baby
- if your contractions are strong, 4 minutes (or less) apart, lasting 1 minute and this pattern has been going on for at least an hour (4-1-1)
If this is NOT your 1st baby
- if your contractions are strong, about 5 minutes apart and strong
- if contractions are very strong, even if they are not regular.
- your water breaks – Note the colour, smell, and baby’s movements
- you are bleeding and it is like a period or running down your leg
- If you think you are in labour and are confused or not coping well
PAGE AFTER BIRTH IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
- Completely soaked through a maternity pad in 30 minutes or less
- A fever of greater than 38 C (100.4 F)
- A sore, red, painful, hot area on your breast or chest
- Flu-like symptoms
- Persistent uterine tenderness
- A vaginal discharge that smells very bad. It should smell like a strong period-smell
- Blurry vision, upper abdominal pain or severe headache
- 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
PAGE IF YOUR BABY HAS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
- Is breathing more than 1 breath/second for more than 10 minutes. It will look like panting for longer that 10minutes.
- Has not peed or pooped in the first 24 hours after the birth
- Will not eat for greater than 6 hours
- Has a temperature of greater than 37.5 C/ 99.5 F or less than 36.3 C (97.3 F)
YOUR MIDWIVES ARE:
| Jill Portelance ext# 2 | Taylor VanDuzer ext# 7 |
| Erin Oakley-Thorp ext# 1 | Cassidy Barfett ext# 5 |
| Laura Parizeau ext# 4 | Sarah Pellegrino ext# 6 |
| Natalie Piche ext# 3 |
