Baby Vibe is a free e-newsletter delivered into your e-mail inbox three days each week. On Mondays, they spread the vibe on fantastic products and services for new and expecting parents and their little ones up to age three. On Wednesdays, experts offer helpful tips ranging from pre- and post-natal fitness, nutrition, book reviews, parenting advice, educational games, and more. Then, on Thursday they send out family-friendly events happening in your town. They also post free birthday and birth announcements each Thursday.

I am currently the Baby Vibes ‘Expert Doula’ where I provide advice and resources to parents’ questions regarding pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

Visit www.BabyVibe.ca to sign up for their newsletter and check out my section for concise answers to common pregnancy and parenting questions.

Urbanmommies.com is Vancouver's full online resource made by moms for moms. If you are thinking about having a baby, are pregnant, or you've just had a child, they offer information and advice on health, fitness, where to shop, eat, meet new moms, what's happening in Vancouver, and most importantly where to get support and who offers it.

I am currently the UrbanMommies.com ‘Expert Doula’ where I provide advice and resources to parents’ questions regarding pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

HARMONY FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER

Harmony Family Wellness Centre is dedicated to providing a natural approach to healthcare for the entire family. Harmony offers a diverse range of treatment options to meet each individual’s health and wellness needs. At Harmony Family wellness there is a special interest to nurture and support future mothers and their families with each practitioner having training and experience working with pregnancy and/or with pediatrics. Harmony believes that given the right tools, parents and families can empower themselves to have a positive, and vibrantly healthy pregnancy, birth, childhood and growth.
Services include: Chinese medicine, Acupuncture, Naturopathic medicine, Homeopathy, Massage Therapy, Craniosacral therapy, Shiatsu massage, and Integrated energy healing. We also offer regular classes and workshops.  These include Birthing From Within® prenatal classes, prenatal yoga, mom and baby yoga, art therapy and more!  Keep checking for updates and schedules. Harmony Family Wellness Centre is also proud to be the sole Vancouver retail distributor of Mama Goddess products.  Supplying high quality teas, Home birthing kits, belly casting kits, Mehndi kits and more!  See the online shop at www.mamagoddessbirthshop.com.

Harmony Family Wellness Clinic is one of the locations where I teach my Birthing From Within® Prenatal Classes.

Family Harmony Wellness Centre is located at  736 W. 16th Ave. For more information about the classes and services offered at Harmony please contact 604-737-7721

WESTSIDE COMMUNITY MIDWIVES

Westside Midwives is a collective of three registered midwives, Camille Bush, Liz Grose and Kelly Hayes.  They provide fully funded midwifery care in a shared care model offering home or hospital births at either St. Paul’s or Children and Women's Hospital. During the spring of 2006, the three of them, along with midwife Jeanne Lyons, decided to join forces and openWestside Midwives, after recognizing a lack of midwifery services in this area of Vancouver. Also working within the clinic is the office of Westside Acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners (TCM’s), Bronwyn Melville and
Ella Pederson.

WestSide Community Midwives Clinic is one of the locations where I teach my Birthing From Within® Prenatal Classes. For more information about these midwives and the clinic visit             www.westsidemidwives.com

YOUTH PREGNANCY AND PARENTING PROGRAM(YPPP)

YPPP serves Vancouver youth up to 22 years old. This program offers a variety of youth friendly services that include: complete prenatal, postnatal (up to 6 weeks), and 24-hr emergency care by doctors.  Additionally, a pregnancy outreach program provided through Healthiest Babies Possible (HBP), prenatal & parenting education,  Birth Doulas,  a Father’s group, Parenting Drop-in until baby reaches 18 months, Community Health Nurses, Social Workers, Dietitians, Outreach Support Workers, Clinical Counsellors, Drug & Alcohol Counsellors, and Breastfeeding Counsellors.

I am a YPPP DOULA and I provide physical and emotional nurturing, informal support, and act as an advocate for YPPP participants. The support that these young women receive from my Doula care is invaluable to them as they often have very little support, the pregnancies were not planned, and many of the young women are still in highschool.

If you have baby clothing, baby furniture, bottles, swings, car seats,
strollers, carriers, toys, or anything else a new mother could use please contact me to donate your items to the Youth Pregnancy and Parenting Program.

MaternityWise is program that was started by a birth advocate and business growth  educator , Chris Anne Johnson who wanted to help other women and their families to enjoy the special time and adjustment surrounding birth. It offers certification to postpartum doulas, and in the near future;"Birth and the Family Advocates", ante-partum doulas, childbirth educators,  and breastfeeding counselors .

In July of this year I was asked by Maternity Wise to speak at their Vancouver Training regarding the Psychological Effects of How a Birth is Perceived and the Effects on Mothers and their Families.  It was an honour to be asked to present this very important information.  I was able to draw on my psychology background, my Birthing From Within training, and how this approach addresses Birth Stories utilizing my experience as a Doula.

If you have a Birth story that is bothering you and are looking for a place to review and process it please feel free to contact me and I can get you started on this journey.