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Camille Bush,
Registered Midwife
Apprenticeship, formal direct-entry
midwifery education in the USA and a Canadian nursing degree
have all contributed to my midwifery background. Over the
years I have had occasion to assist families giving birth
in California and Illinois in the USA; Holland and Germany
in Europe; and as well a variety of settings in BC. I've
provided midwifery care in rural group practice in the Kootenays,
in urban partnership in Vancouver and in community based
programs working with pregnant adolescents. In life, my
greatest lessons about birth have come from the families
I've assisted, my three children, and the wisdom of my Appalachian
midwife grandmother who helped the neighbour ladies.
Currently and prior to the beginning of regulated midwifery
in 1998 I've been a part of the Midwifery Practice at BC
Women's located in the Women's Health Centre. To me the
connection between midwifery and women's health is a natural
one. I have been committed to both since the beginning of
my apprenticeship in 1974. Just recently I found myself
extending a mutual congratulations to the mother of the
first baby I ever caught on our 30th anniversary on March
9th.
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Jeanne Lyons
Registered Midwife
Jeanne Lyons is one of our pioneer midwives who has helped
make legalized and funded midwifery a reality for the childbearing
families of BC and has been involved in this profession
since 1981. She is a founding member of the Midwives Association
of BC.
She has a Masters of Midwifery Practice from the Thames
Valley University in London, England; has worked in BC,
the Netherlands, Germany, Arctic Quebec. In Artic Quebec
she worked as a midwife and a tutor for Inuit midwives in
a birth centre in Puvirnituq. She provides the full scope
of midwifery practice including home and hospital births.
Jeanne loves babies, has an enormous respect for the birth
process and as midwife sees herself as guardian of the normal
process of birth. She is thrilled to support families in
the profound rite of passage of pregnancy, labour, birth
and the postpartum phase. She helped facilitate the informed
decision matrix.
Jeanne is a Clinical Instructor for the Midwifery Program
at UBC.
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