In Florida, Licensed Midwives (LM) provide
primary maternity care for women with low - risk pregnancies, offering complete prenatal, delivery and postpartum care.
Pregnancy experiences (n = 2514) were reported by 1672 women who saw a single type
of primary maternity care provider in British Columbia.
The Multidisciplinary Collaborative
Primary Maternity Care Project (MCP2), completed in June 2006, was designed to help address the human resource shortage crisis that exists in the provision of intrapartum care to pregnant women.
For the purposes of the current analysis, we excluded responses about childbirth experiences from outside of British Columbia and about health center nurses and «other» care providers from the dataset, to focus on the three types of
primary maternity care providers available in BC (i.e. midwives, family physicians, or obstetricians).
The overarching goal of MCP2 was to reduce key barriers and facilitate the implementation of national multidisciplinary collaborative
primary maternity care strategies as a means of increasing the availability and quality of maternity services for all Canadian women.
The MCP2 project has identified 7 knowledge transfer modules that support the development of a multidisciplinary collaborative
primary maternity care model.
Health Canada — Initiative Fact Sheet about the Multidisciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project