MCNS now focussed only on early pregnancy and after birth postpartum services. Vera Berard RM values developing partnerships with her clients in care and seeing folk develop confidence in their pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting experiences. Adding a new member into the family, involves more than just pregnancy, parent and infant care. It is an emotional transition for the entire family, in which she is delighted to continue to play a supportive role at the beginning of a pregnancy and after the birth of a baby. MCNS offers after birth services to pregnant folk, who have doctors providing their prenatal, labor and birth care. Folk can enrol in their pregnancies and arrange a 3rd trimester consultation visit to prepare for their after birth recovery, infant feeding and early parenting https://midwiferycare.ca/postpartum-services/ Vera Berard also offers initial and early pregnancy care in the 1st and 2nd trimester to folk, who would like to begin their care with personalized, responsive one-to-one care https://midwiferycare.ca/prenatal-services/ . Early prenatal clients are transferred to another midwifery or doctor practice for ongoing later prenatal, labor and birth care 4 weeks after their last scheduled appointment with Vera. Their records are sent to the ongoing provider's office before their first appointment with their ongoing provider. Clients who transfer to a doctor for ongoing care have the option of arranging a 3rd trimester consultation postpartum preparation visit, and of being transferred back into Vera's practice after the birth of their babies. Vera's posptpartum services begin in clients homes on the 1st or 2nd day after they have been discharged from hosptial. Midwifery postpartum services are covered by MSP for 6-8 weeks. MCNS offers a variety of remote, home and office visits. Vera's office space is now in Shipyards Health, 88 Lonsdale Ave, N. Vancouver on a couple of Wednesday afternoons from 2pm - 8pm a month. Vera has more flexibility with remote and home visits and less flexibility with office visits. Office visit are needed, as midwives are paid for a phase of care that includes a number of visits. Vera schedules each client's phase of care in advance and can plan to have in-person visits with more clients per day in one location than can be provided when home visits are scheduled. Early pregnancy clients have 2-3 visits scheduled per trimester at the beginning of their care. There are at least 5-6 scheduled postpartum visits. Early pregnancy and postpartum clients are also in email contact with Vera, They can arrange for additional unscheduled remote and/or in-person visits as needed via Vera's email paging system, which is available to MCNS clients 7 days a week between 8am-11pm. In the rare event that clients have a time-sensitive concern between midnight and 8am, they are instructed to call 811 and/or to go into LGH ER.