When you have to give birth in secret
The baggy sweater from the University of Manitoba makes Jen?s baby bump unnoticeable at first glance?and that might be the point. She?s eight months pregnant and weeks from now, in the comfort of her home in Winnipeg?s North End, she plans to give birth in secret. Doing so will avoid the sort of alert her last birth triggered, she hopes, and help ensure that her next baby is one Indigenous child who doesn?t disappear into foster care.
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Why many Northern Indigenous women are still relocated to deliver their babies Two years ago, Jen was several hours into labour at Women?s Hospital in Winnipeg when she was gripped by the fear that her newborn would be apprehended. Someone had handed her a form demanding answers to a raft of personal questions: where she lived, how much money she made, the state of her mental health and her history of contact with Child and Family Services (CFS). By then the contractions were almost unbearable and Jen, who asked that her full name not be used, no longer felt in control of her own body. The whole scene felt intrusive and wrong?not how this moment was supposed to happen. A few hours later, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. But before she was discharged, the nurse, acting under provisions in Manitoba law, called ...
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