Flexible Frameworks for Safe and Quality Midwifery Care during COVID-19
The Canadian Association of Midwives (CAM) and the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives (NACM)
are the national organizations representing midwives and the profession of midwifery in Canada. As
primary health care providers, midwives are experts in normal birth and community-based care. Midwives
are health care professionals with the training and expertise to provide perinatal, including intrapartum
care outside of hospitals. As we collectively confront the COVID-19 pandemic and the magnitude of its
impact to our public health care system, CAM and NACM recommend that governments, public health
authorities, and system policy and decision makers consider how childbirth occurs in the context of
COVID-19 and put in place flexible frameworks for perinatal care provision to ensure the safety of
birthing people, families, and health care providers during this pandemic.
