Family Doctors in the Comox Valley have provided a website as a community specific resource tool for expectant parents in the Comox Valley. The website offers information about local supports and services for pregnancy and postpartum, including resources for:

• Pregnancy: care provider options, prenatal education, diet and nutrition information.

• Unplanned pregnancy

• Labour and Delivery: birth planning, giving birth at CVH, home birth options.

• Loss: understanding and coping with miscarriage, bereavement supports.

• Bringing Home Baby: breast feeding support, postpartum anxiety and depression support, childcare resources.

Website: pregnantinthecomoxvalley.ca

... I WANT TO DO A PREGNANCY TEST

• At your family doctor’s office: Contact your clinic

• At home

• At a midwifery clinic: 
  Cedar House Brith Collective (formally Cedar House Midwifery) or Plum Midwifery

... I WANT TO FIND A SEXUAL HEALTH CLINIC

• Courtenay Options for Sexual Health Clinic 
• Rosewall Women's Clinic
• Well Health Medical Centre - Courtenay (walk-in clinic)

... I'M PREGNANT AND NEED A MATERNITY CARE PROVIDER

In British Columbia, women have options available for who cares for them during their pregnancy. The BC Medical Service Plan (BC MSP) will cover the cost of your maternity care. In the Comox Valley, you can choose a family physician or a registered midwife as your maternity care provider. In some circumstances you may be referred to an obstetrician for your primary care (see note below).

  OR   

NOTE: Obstetricians in the Comox Valley provide 24 hour maternity and gynaecological care at Comox Valley Hospital. An obstetrician is a specialist in women’s health and has expertise in the management of obstetrical emergencies and high risk pregnancies. Consultation with an obstetrician is available for pregnancies requiring additional medical expertise, by referral from your maternity care provider. Obstetricians work in collaboration with family physicians and midwives and strive to provide non-biased, patient centred care and may follow patients in and out of hospital as long as ongoing care is needed. Obstetricians also provide counselling and assistance with postpartum birth control, sexual health, and incontinence.

... I'M PREGNANT AND NOT SURE I WANT TO BE

Visit Pregnant in the Comox Valley for information, support and guidance.