Thirty-six weeks pregnant, and away from her kids and community in a hotel in Prince George, Brittany King is trying to stay calm. Article content

The expectant mother is 600 kilometres from her home in Kitimat because the local hospital cannot support the twin babies she will deliver by C-section later this month. Prince George is better than Vancouver — a possibility that was raised earlier in her pregnancy — but it’s still far from her support network at one of the most vulnerable times in her life.

“I’m just trying to take it day by day,” said King. “I’m doing a lot of deep breathing.”

In a statement released Friday, the obstetrics and gynecologists section of Doctors of B.C. sounded the alarm about the shortage of maternity specialists in B.C. and the impacts on women and babies w

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