On the basis that the
context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and
rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver
Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).
The differences, we imagined, reflect the schools» founders but also their
contexts: self - reliant
rural Minnesota; tight - knit blue - collar Rhode
Island; brash and brainy Manhattan; entrepreneurial Southern California.