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Childbirth Education Services

Childbirth Education Services offers private childbirth classes, breastfeeding classes, and breastfeeding support.

Private childbirth class content:

  • Describe and demonstrate, with visual aids, the process of labour and birth.
  • Demonstrate massage, breathing and relaxation techniques and changes in position to help labour be as comfortable as possible.
  • Practice these techniques as a couple.
  • Partner or support persons role and participation.
  • Information on making informed choices during labour.
  • Medical interventions, benefits, risks, and alternatives.
  •  Information on baby care and postpartum.
  • Complete breastfeeding course.
  • DVD's to compliment each technique, including breastfeeding.

    Class sessions: 2 classes; 3hrs each class  1 week apart  1 month before the due date  Classes are held in your home, one on one.

    Breastfeeding Classes

    Class covers:   
    ·         Demonstrating and practice proper latching and positioning.                                 
    ·         Information on milk production and supply.                                                                
    ·         Prevention of sore nipples and low milk supply.                                                            
    ·         Role of father in bonding and breastfeeding.

    Breastfeeding Consultation          

    Do you have sore nipples, low milk supply, too much milk, engorgement, pain or redness in your breasts? Does your baby cry a lot?

    Qualification:  Lamaze and Bradley Method, R.N. certified Lactation Consultant and certified Childbirth Educator.

    For information: childbirth.education@sympatico.ca  [give due date and location] www3.sympatico.ca/childbirth.education; call for assessment June Martin 905-686-7758  


    Community Care Midwives

    Debbie Doiron represents the Community Care Midwife group who provides prenatal care and birth options to couples in Durham Region through the Lakeridge Health Oshawa and Northumberland (Cobourg) Hospitals. 

     
    Discover Birth     

     

     

    Discover Birth Inc offers childbirth education, doula services, and breastfeeding support across the Durham Region. 

    Lamaze® Classes, topics covered will include:

    • Late pregnancy health and wellness (nutrition, exercise) and anatomy  
    •  Physical and emotional aspects of labour and birth
    • Coping strategies and comfort measures (including: positioning to facilitate the normal progress of labor and birth, massage techniques to ease the pain of labour and enhance relaxation, understanding the use of heat, cold, pressure and hydrotherapy)
    • Relaxation skills for use during labour and after pregnancy to relieve stress
    • Understanding the importance and role of support and the impact on the childbirth experience
    • Awareness and informed decision-making
    • Communication skills for the pregnant woman with her partner and the members of her health care team
    • Medications and medical interventions
    • Early postpartum and newborn
    • Breastfeeding

     

     

     

    Birth doulas help clients prepare for and experience the powerful potential of a satisfying birth experience. The work with clients prenatally to prepare them for birth and then attend birth with them. They support each client’s choices and helps them have a safe and satisfying experience. Birth doulas are shown in research to decrease: medications used, use of interventions, cesarean sections, and postpartum depression after birth.

    A postpartum doula works with new parents once baby has arrived. They help new parents adjust to the transition of parenting by helping with breastfeeding, housework, errands, and caring for older siblings. They have special training in breastfeeding and early parenting and can be booked in as little as two hour increments.

    Contact Discover Birth at: 1-877-BIRTH36 (247-8436) or 905 428-9629 www.discoverbirth.com 



    Donna Schinkel

    Donna is a Lactation Consultant in her Private Practice, Durham Lactation Centre. She runs a Breast Pump Depot and Prenatal Breastfeeding Classes and works from home. She has been a La Leche League Leader for 27years and has been Chairperson for the Durham Region Breastfeeding Coalition since 1994.

    Durham Region Health Department 

    Karen Campbell works in the Reproductive and Child Health Program at the Durham Region Health Department. The Reproductive and Child Health Program provides free programs and services including:

    • Health Fairs for men and women planning a pregnancy or who are pregnant.
    • Food 4 Thought, a drop-in community group where women who are pregnant can find support, health education and access to healthy food.
    • Breast feeding support groups, one to one breastfeeding support.
    • Babyville, a support group for parents with children of infants 0 – 12 months.
    • Healthy Babies Healthy Children, linking prenatal moms and families with children less than six years of age to a public health nurse.
    • Postpartum Mood Disorders Support Groups
    • S.M.I.L.E. (Supporting Mothers and Infants Learning Experience), free labour and delivery classes for young pregnant women).

    Girls Incorporated of Durham

    The Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) is a community based initiative federally funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and administered by Girls Incorporated of Durham.  This program aims to reduce the incidence of unhealthy birth weights, improve the health of both infant and mother and encourage breastfeeding.  CPNP Drop-in Sites, which are known as     Food '4' Thought Drop-ins, are operated in 10 sites throughout Durham Region.  Each drop-in site provides a safe, friendly environment where women can obtain advice from healthcare providers and other moms, get materials on health and wellness, and receive fresh fruit and vegetables, milk, and prenatal vitamins.  This program is for pregnant women and new mothers 26 years of age and under.  Women may come to a site any time during their pregnancy and continue to receive support until their infants are 6 months of age.  For more information and the location of these sites please contact:  Girls Incorporated of Durham at 905-428-8111 or visit our website:  www.girlsinc-durham.org.     


    Janet Petryshyn  

    Janet is a community member with no agency affiliation. She is currently retired from the profession but works to provide information and to advocate for breastfeeding.


    La Leche League Canada (LLLC)

    For over 50 years La Leche League has been dedicated to helping mothers and babies enjoy happy, healthy breastfeeding relationships

    La Leche League Leaders are trained volunteers with personal experience of breastfeeding as well as familiarity with current research, enabling them to empathize with the everyday breastfeeding challenges and help mothers find strategies that work for their family.

    Research has shown that support by other breastfeeding mothers helps mothers breastfeed longer and with greater confidence

    Pregnant women and nursing mothers can get LLL information and support by phoning a Leader, by attending local group meetings or on-line (lllc.ca)

    Ajax/Pickering Group
    Please contact:
    Lee Anne (905 245-0411)
    Shannon (905 426-1741) 
    Donna (905 427-8063)
    Yvette (905683-7547)
    Kelly (905 509-0995)



    Oshawa/Whitby Group

    2nd Wednesday of each month
    Mom & Baby Depot, 207 Dundas St W, Whitby
    7pm to 9 pm, nursing babies always welcome     free parking, on city and GO bus routes

    No membership fee required to attend meetings

    Lending library available at meetings, including the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

    Topics include, but are not limited to:

    • Advantages of Breastfeeding
    • Baby Arrives:  The Family and the Breastfed Baby
    • Overcoming Difficulties

    Nutrition & Weaning

    In addition to these regular meetings we frequently hold morning meetings in mothers homes to discuss the concerns of mothers with nursing toddlers.

    Please contact:
    Pam (905 728 7463)
    Suzanne (905 668 2906) 
    Louise (905 723 0542)

    Uxbridge Group

    Alexandra (905) 862-0387 
    Karen (905 862-3303) 
    Louise (905 723 0542)
                                                                                                                          
    Linda Richardson                                             

     Linda works at the hospital Lakeridge Health in the Maternal Child Program as Lactation Consultant (RN).


    Louise Koopmans

    Louis is one of the original (1989) members of the Durham Region Breastfeeding Coalition.  She attends meetings as a La Leche League Leader (Oshawa/Whitby Group) and has held various coalition positions.  Presently she helps with minutes and also with the treasury.


    Midwifery Services of Durham

    Midwifery Services of Durham offers prenatal care and birth options to couples in the Durham and Markham areas through the Markham Stouffville Hospital and their clinic in Ajax. 


    Many other community partners...

    Wise Parent (FREE informative workshops for parents) 1-888-619-1232 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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