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  • Home
  • Midwifery
  • Prenatal Classes
  • Information
  • Request for Care
  • Privacy Policy
  • Meet our Team
  • Pregnancy
  • Labour and Birth
  • Newborn Information
  • PostPartum Recovery
  • Feeding Your Baby
  • Perinatal and Post Partum Mental Health
  • Parenting and Support
 

 

What is a doula and why we recommend them

Evidence on doulas

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Why Choose a Home Birth

Homebirth - a safe option for low risk women

New collaborative statement from the SOGC on Planned Home Birth

A beautiful local homebirth - video

A waterbirth at home

Birth Pool Options in Nanaimo

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Getting Ready to Give Birth

Perinatal Services BC Parent Learning Hub

Helping the Body Prepare for Labour Handout

Acupuncture for Cervical Ripening

Pathway to a Healthy Birth

Hormonal Physiology of Chlidbirth

Preparing for an Intact Perineum

Perineal Stretching

Get Baby into the best position for birth - Optimal Fetal Positioning

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Optimal Fetal Positioning for Birth

Birth Biodynamics

Spinning Babies

The Miles Circuit

When you think labour has begun

When to call your Midwife in Labour

What is your mucus plug and what is its function

Timing Contractions

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Strategies for Coping with the pains of labour

Understanding and Coping with Labour

Affirmations & Visualizations for Birth

Evidence on Eating & Drinking in Labour 

How to provide Comfort in labour - for the birth partner

How to provide labour support - for the birth partner

Evidence on Waterbirth

Water Immersion for Pain Relief in Labour

TENS Machine Use in Labour

Positions during Labor and their Effects on Pain Relief

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Pharmacological Pain Management

Nitrous Oxide Use in Labour

Epidurals

IV / IM Opioids in labour

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3rd Stage / Delivering your Placenta

Delivering your placenta and the 3rd stage of labour

What is a a postpartum hemorrhage and how to recover from one if you have had one

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