Cook Street Community Midwives

08/05/2026

Our July baby board (welcome Hamish, Rehmat, Louie, Alessia, Ian, Amir, Nora, Elias, Euna, Ethan, Marcus, Saylor, Cassian, and Logan!) and our new tea and hydration station in the waiting area 🫖

07/12/2026

We welcomed 25 Junebugs last month ! Hello sweet babies 👶

02/27/2026

Our midwives have had a couple of spots open up for people due in September and October 2026 (and we're already booking into November - time flies!). Please submit an intake form through our website to request care.

12/03/2025

A couple spots have opened up for families expecting a baby in spring 2026! If you'd like to book in with us, we'd love to hear from you.

06/20/2025

We need to raise our collective voices in support of the South Island Indigenous Midwifery Service (SIIMS), an Indigenous-led, culturally safe perinatal care program that has lost funding and will cease to exist if the ministry of health does not act now.

We are asking you to join us by:
📣 Sharing this post with the tag
📣 Visit linktr.ee/saveourSIIMS to send an email to your MLA and Minister of Health, Josie Osborne
📣 STAND WITH SIIMS on June 26th from 11:00-1:00pm at the Legislative Assembly of BC

05/05/2025

05/05/2025

Honouring the Loved Ones Left Behind

Across the country, red dresses hang in windows, on trees, and in doorways. They call us to remember. To honour. To act.

May 5th is known as Red Dress Day — a day of remembrance for the Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people who are missing or have been murdered.

We hold space today for the lives taken — and for those who remain. For the families who continue to search. For the communities carrying generations of grief. For the aunties, siblings, and children living with absence every day.

This grief is not passive. It is woven with resistance, ceremony, and love.

Indigenous families and communities have never stopped calling for safety, justice, and change.

We stand in solidarity with them. We listen. We amplify. We act — because remembrance must be more than reflection. It must move us toward a future where Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people are safe, celebrated, and home.

05/06/2024

Posted • This weekend we mark two important dates on May 5th : National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and International Day of the Midwife.

Here in Kwakwaka’wakw Territories we have lost so many parents in the last couple of years with all these passing being linked to struggles with substance use disorder and su***de.

Today I am sharing the brief story of 2 of these young mothers who were in my care during their pregnancies and are related to one of the local indigenous birth-keepers, Laura Joe.

At age 23, Tiffany Joe (Laura’s aunt) died March 24th 2022 alone with her daughter Carlynn’s shoes in her purse. Tiff was always trying to get back on her path and parent her daughter, who was 3 at the time.

Marcy Charlie (Laura’s sister) died July 27th 2023, when her son Maverick was also 3yrs old. While Marcy worked hard during pregnancy maintaining her sobriety, early in the post partum period she was pulled back into her addictions.

Now Laura and her mom are actively parenting Carlynn and working hard to get Maverick returned to them from MCFD care.

In order to honour both these young mamas in a good way we are seeking your donations this weekend towards getting proper headstones to mark their graves. Please send etransfers directly to Laura ([email protected])

05/06/2024

Even midwives need midwives! In honour of International Day of the Midwife, here are some photos from when our clinic recently hosted a record-breaking number of midwives to celebrate the not one, not two, but five(!) pregnant midwives in our community. Thank you to for leading the blessingway with beauty and intention and to our wonderful midwifery community for joining in ceremony and celebration 🥰



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05/05/2023

And just like that, we're now booking up into *checks notes* 2024!! Visit http://www.cookstmidwives.com/contact to submit an intake form.