Judi Brandson, RM

​My name is Judi Brandson (She/Her) and I am the founding and senior partner of Community Care Midwives. My first job after graduating from high school was as a teller and loans officer at a Credit Union in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When I started my family I returned to school and received a degree in Early Childhood Education. I cared for children in my home for many years while I raised my two daughters.

During that time our family moved to Whitby. As my girls entered their teen years I decided to return to school, but was unsure of what I wanted to do with the rest of my working life. I started to investigate the programs available to me at various universities in Ontario and happened on a Health Science program at Ryerson University with a specialization in Midwifery. I decided to apply to the program. In 1996 I was accepted into the midwifery program at Ryerson University and in 2001 graduated with a Health Sciences degree with a specialty in Midwifery.

I spent my first year of practice in Newmarket/Alliston at Caring Hands Midwifery. I left Whitby concerned that there was no opportunity for women to deliver a baby with midwives at any hospital in Durham Region. To rectify this situation I spent that year caring for women in Newmarket while developing a business plan for a new midwifery clinic in Oshawa/Cobourg for the Ministry of Health and working toward privileging midwives at Lakeridge Health Oshawa and Northumberland Hills Cobourg hospitals. In February 2003 Community Care Midwives opened its doors with clinics in both Oshawa and Cobourg.

I am often asked what is the best part of my job as a midwife. Though there are many great reasons to love what I do, my favorite part is being present to witness the life changing moment of the birth of a child. To be invited into the personal lives of women and their families is an honor. The many stories of the births I have attended are both poignant and individual. What isn’t there to love about what I do every day!

When I take time and step away from my life as a midwife I have many things I love to spend time doing. I am an avid reader and read a book or two every week. I will read almost anything but sci-fi or westerns. I love to travel and love to try new foods and learn about interesting new places. And most of all I love to spend time with my family. I have 6 fabulous grandkids; Maia, Elliot, Ruari, Caius, Chloe and Maggie Grace that are the most fun in the world.
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