The hospital in Lac La Biche hasn't been able to provide caesarean sections since last May. With many hospitals in northeastern Alberta facing obstetrics shortages, patients are travelling hours to reach a hospital that can deliver a baby.
Nicole and Derek Gauthier welcome their newborn daughter Emery after a planned home birth ended with a C-section at a hospital two hours away.
Doctors told Gauthier the birth was expected to be low-risk, so she hired a midwife with a clinic within minutes from Gauthier's home, an acreage outside the hamlet of Plamondon. Both Bonnyville and St. Paul have hospitals closer to Gauthier's home, but neither had enough staff to provide surgery at the time. Several hospitals in northeastern Alberta have had extended obstetrics closures in the last year.En route, her midwife found she had dilated to 10 centimetres.
"I was actually able to see in the reflection of the lights during the C-section when they pulled her out," Gauthier said of Emery. "She was crying right away. She picked up right away. She did really, really well."The hospital in Lac La Biche hasn't been able to provide caesarean sections since May. With many hospitals in northeastern Alberta facing obstetrics shortages, patients are travelling hours to reach a hospital that can deliver a baby.
Moench's son was born in Lac La Biche 15 months ago by emergency C-section. She wants to have another child but worries she will have to travel to give birth next time.
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