EOM Clients
Welcome to our client section. The following links and downloadable files provide a wealth of useful information for all stages of pregnancy, childbirth and early infant care. Additional pregnancy, childbirth and parenting links can be found in our Community Resources section.
Initial Visit
Early Pregnancy
- The Sensible Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
- Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Pocket Guide
- Physical Activity During and After Pregnancy
- Canada Food Guide
- Eating for a Healthy Pregnancy
- Dieticians of Canada
- Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy
- Safe Food Handling for Pregnant Women
- Pregnancy is Not Always What You Expect
- Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy
- Ottawa-Gatineau information and support for pregnancy loss, infant lost and infertility
vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)
- Thinking about VBAC: Deciding what's right for me
- International Cesarean Awareness Network
- Power to Push
- I Can Push (local info sessions)
- Vaginal Birth After Cesarean and Choice of Birthplace
- Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (Association of Ontario Midwives)
- Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada)
RH Negative
Second trimester
Childbirth Preparation
- Birth plan guide and template
- Ottawa Birth and Wellness Center - Preparing for birth
- Pain Relief During Labour and Delivery
- Ottawa Valley Doulas
- Ottawa Childbirth Education Association
- Mothercraft prenatal education
- Ottawa Public Health prenatal classes
- Prenatal Classes & Preganacy Circles
- Naissance-Renaissance Outaouais prenatal classes
- HypnoBirthing, the Mongan method
- The Bonapace method
Third Trimester
- Birth supplies for home hospitals and birth centre births
- When you water breaks before labour
- Group B Streptococcus Prevention and Management in Labour
- Prevention of Early-onset Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease
- Group B Streptococcus and Management of a Newborn
- When your pregnancy goes past your due date
Optimal Fetal POsitioning
Newborn
- Newborn Registration Service
- Newborn Screening and Your Baby
- Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening
- Circumcision of baby boys: Information for parents
- Newborn male circumcision - position statement from Canadian Paediatric Society
- Eye prophylaxis - position statement from Ontario Association of Midwives
- Preventing ophthalmia neonatorum - position statement from Canadian Paediatric Society
- Guidelines for detection, management and prevention of hyperbilirubinemia in infants - position statement from Canadian Paediatric Society
- Jaundice in Newborns
- Routine administration of vitamin K to newborns - position statement from Canadian Paediatric Society
- Newborn Hearing Screening
- Vitamin D information
- Vitamin D supplementation - position statement from Canadian Paediatric Society
Caring for new baby
Feeding resources
- Ottawa Breastfeeds
- La Leche League local groups
- Breastfeeding Inc
- Parenting in Ottawa: Breastfeeding
- Getting started with breastfeeding by Stanford Medicine (videos)
- Bottle Feeding (from the Eastern Ontario Health Unit)
- Infant Formula: What You Need to Know
- Breastfeeding: Positioning and Latching
- Formula feeding: Amount and schedule
POST PARTUM Depression
PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES
MISCaRRIAGE
Substance use in pregnancy
Cannabis
- 8 things you need to know about cannabis, pregnancy and breastfeeding by the SOGC
- Cannabis Fact Sheet by the SOGC
- Thinking about using cannabis before or during pregnancy? A resource by the PHAC and Best Start
- Maternal Cannabis Use during Pregnancy. A report by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction
EXERCISE IN PREGNANCY
COVID-19 in PREGnancy
VAGINAL BREECH BIRTH
