Huckleberry
Huckleberry Midwives is an Indigenous-led midwifery practice offering culturally relevant, full spectrum care during pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh territory in Vancouver, BC. We prioritize providing quality care for Indigenous families, while also welcoming People of Colour (POC) and non-Indigenous clients into care with us.
We are Indigenous & non-Indigenous/Settler midwives who work collaboratively to provide equitable, high-quality health care during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. We are primary care providers, with a scope of practice similar to a Family Doctor but only focussing on pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Although our patients are the birthing parent and the baby, we care for the whole family, community, and relations.
Recognizing that we are guests on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory, we hope to grow our practice by following local Indigenous leadership, protocols and values. Indigenous midwives have been practising here for thousands of years, and our goal is to support Indigenous midwifery by mentoring new and prospective Indigenous midwives and birth workers while supporting capacity building for bringing birth home in Indigenous communities.
In addition to providing clinical midwifery care as primary care providers, we also offer individualized full-spectrum care for BIPOC families including supporting access to BIPOC doulas, Indigenous medicines, traditional foods, relationships with elders and connection to other community supports. In addition to birth, we support loss, miscarriage, abortion, family planning, sexual and reproductive health and more.
We also work closely with the ekw’í7tl Indigenous doula collective to connect our clients to Indigenous prenatal classes and Indigenous birth place info nights.
Practising with Indigenous values means a slower kind of midwifery, taking more time to build relationships, individualize care and connect our clients to other good care in the community. Visiting as medicine! Because of this, we will have a smaller case load and our goal is to be able to have more time to spend with each of our clients.
Who We Are
Who do we care for?
• Low-risk, healthy birthers
• Newborns for the first 6 weeks of their life
When there are any complications or special considerations for birther and/or baby we call an Obstetrician, Paediatrician or other specialist colleagues to join the care team
Where do we work?
• Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-waututh lands in Vancouver, B.C.
• Home births
• Hospital births: BC Women’s Hospital
• Clinic visits: Pomegranate Community Midwives + Lu’ma Clinic
• Postpartum care: at home, in community, on-the-land, in clinic
How to reach us:
Email us: info@huckleberrymidwives.com
