How one First Nation hopes to bring birthing back to the community and improve outcomes – CBC

Sep 24, 2024

‘There was a lot of bad outcomes … miscarriages’: health official

It was New Year’s Eve when Tenielle Easter started bleeding. Staff at the nearby hospital confirmed her fears — she was having a miscarriage.

“It was very, very hard and traumatizing for me,” she said. “I didn’t know what to do. I feel like everything just went downhill.”

The experience sent Easter, then 18, into a tailspin — years of recklessness, substance abuse and bad decisions.

When she got pregnant again three years later, she knew things had to change.

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