Maternal health

Everything you need to know about your pregnancy: what to expect week by week, tips for baby names and baby shower planning, pregnancy health, and more.

Pregnancy

Labour and delivery

In Canada each year, 2,000 babies are stillborn, 18 times the number that are lost to SIDS.

Love labour loss: The heartache of a stillborn baby

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Premature birth

Bringing baby home

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Learning to massage is a terrific way to help ease some of the pain – and tension – during labour. 

Labour massage

Here are some alternative methods to help induce labour.

Induction of labour

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Giving birth

Postpartum doulas

Is normal birth at risk?

Love labour loss: The heartache of a stillborn baby

Why birth matters

Oddball labours

Mothercare

Caesarean recovery

Now we are three

Surgical birth

Labour massage

Turning a Baby

Induction of labour