Katie M. Cook, MA, Andrea LaMarre, PhD, Carla Rice, PhD, and May Friedman, PhD
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This article investigates the standards of care for fat recipients of midwifery care through a lens that questions common risk-focused narratives related to fat pregnant bodies. Throughout this article, we use the term "fat" rather than "obese" or...
Kathleen E. Zenith, Kathi Wilson, BA, BHSc, MSc, RM
STUDENT ARTICLE
The dichotomy of a midwife and 'medwife' underlies a deeper issue regarding the professional identity of midwifery in relation to legislation, integration, and the increasing expansion of clinical scope, in contrast to the “natural birth” movement.
Tasnim Nathoo, MSc, MSW, RSW, Lindsay Wolfson, MPH, Karen Gelb, MA, and Nancy Poole, PhD
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In Canada, the context for providing brief intervention on substance use during pregnancy is shifting with new opportunities for enhancing discussion of alcohol and other substances, due to the introduction of novel nicotine delivery products (e.g., vaping),...
Jenifer Li, MSc; Sara E. Dizzell, MSc; Sara L. Jones, BHSc; Sarah Kanji, MSc; Jennifer T. Lau, PhD; Andrea Mousseau, MD; Efrah I. Yousuf, BSc; Alison C. Holloway, PhD; Elyanne M. Ratcliffe, MD; Jennifer C. Stearns, PhD; Katherine Morrison, MD; and Eileen K. Hutton, PhD
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The influence of the intestinal microbiota on metabolic, nutritional, and immunological processes...
Katherine Gerster, BSc, MD, FRCSC, Beth Murray-Davis, BA, BHSc, MA, PhD, Ebernella Shirin Dason, BSc, MD, and Dustin Costescu, BSc, MD, FRCSC
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Objective: This study explores the family planning counselling that adolescents receive during pregnancy care, with the aim of identifying those factors that make counselling effective or ineffective.
Methods: The study population consisted of ten...