Healthy Babies, Happy Families
460 Hume Street #2 Collingwood, ON, Canada

If you’re struggling with you mood, join us for a safe, supportive and confidential virtual group where we’ll talk about postpartum mood changes, self-care & self-compassion, coping strategies, relationship changes and how to strengthen a healthy attachment to your baby. Email or call to sign up, or to find out more.

We hope everybody had a lovely, family-filled, safe & happy Easter weekend. Reminder that our virtual breastfeeding breastfeeding drop-in is tomorrow! Email to get signed up and receive the link the join.

Happy Monday! If you have any breastfeeding questions or need advice heading into the long weekend, email to join our virtual drop-in group on Wednesday!

Check it out! Join midwife Allison Rigney for a fantastic, informative breastfeeding workshop. Email [email protected] to register! @midwivesnottawasaga

Group "Pelvic Floor" Postpartum is today at 1pm! If you haven't registered yet, let us know and we'll send you the link to login! Looking forward to this afternoon.

Questions about your pelvic floor? Looking for exercises for sore shoulders from breastfeeding? Or are you just looking to virtually get together with some other Moms? Join us tomorrow for our last group session of 2020! Email [email protected] to sign up for this great session with special guest @laura.hfphysio from Higher Function Women’s Health.

This Wednesday will be our last virtual breastfeeding drop-in group until January! Be sure to email [email protected] to register!

We know we’re excited about this upcoming group session with @laura.hfphysio ! Email [email protected] to register.

Call or email to register for tomorrow’s session!

Check out this new resource from the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. An excellent local resource with lots of great info on feeding your baby.

We love Group Postpartum AND we love this kind of weather in November! 20 Mamas got outside together today to move our bodies and connect with each other about all things baby The postpartum period can feel isolating, especially during Covid19. We are here to help, support and chat. Join us next week!

If you’ve not been able to join us yet, tomorrow is the day to come! Gorgeous November weather and a wonderful group of Mamas to walk & talk with. Meet at 1pm behind the McDonalds on First Street. See you tomorrow!

Hurray! It’s our favourite day of the week tomorrow... Group Postpartum day! We’ll meet at 1pm behind the McDonalds on First Street (second photo includes map of location). See you there for 1pm tomorrow!

Have you heard about our group postpartum sessions? We host them every Thursday afternoon at 1pm. We change up where we meet every week so keep your eyes peeled to our Instagram (hbhf_collingwood) & Facebook pages for weekly updates!

For a variety of reasons, it can be necessary to feed your baby a supplement. A supplement, or "top-up", can be expressed breast milk or formula. Depending on your breastfeeding goals, early use of a bottle can be detrimental to successful breastfeeding. If you want to breastfeed but your baby needs a supplement, there's many ways to do this that avoid using a bottle. Check out this poster we made helping explain the differences and how to use each device to do spoon, cup... or syringe feeding. And don't forget, if you need help - we're just a phone call away and are open 7 days a week.

Have some breastfeeding questions? Looking for support? We’re offering this virtual session every week! Call or Email to sign up. Registration closes Wednesday at 9am.

Check out these awesome learning opportunities, taught by a interdisciplinary group of clinicians. We are big fans of multidisciplinary teams and these classes are a wonderful demonstration of the benefits of working together to help deliver exceptional patient care.

We are TWO years old today

It’s going to be a lovely day tomorrow looking forward to seeing everybody :)

Have you heard about the Latch-On challenge facilitated by La Leche League Canada? Saturday, October 3, 3:30pm (EST) Virtual Breastfeeding Challenge/Latch On - Quintessence Foundation holds the Challenge to provide support for breastfeeding women. Breastfeeding has many well-documented benefits including better health for both mothers and babies. However, many women fail to meet their own breastfeeding goals and wean their children prematurely, well before meeting the reco...mmended guidelines. Two of the biggest hurdles for mothers continue to be lack of support and marginalization by the community. The Challenge strives to increase public awareness of the normalacy of breastfeeding, the benefits to mother, child and community and the ways in which women need support to achieve the recommended duration for breastfeeding. Register here: https://www.lllc.ca/breastfeeding-challenge-2020

9 mamas, 9 babies, one midwife and one floofy mascot! Even a dreary afternoon can’t stop this crew from our group walks. Grateful for the opportunity to connect with one another while getting outside & moving our bodies.

Based on feedback- we will meet in the parking lot (by the water tower) of the Collingwood YMCA and walk from there! Look for Midwife Julie who will lead today’s group!

Brrrr this dreary October weather can be tough for getting outdoors. But bundle up and join us for a walk tomorrow afternoon. Let’s switch it up this week and walk along the trails in the Arboretum & Awen Gathering Place located behind the McDonalds on First Street. See second photo for a map to marked location. Don’t forget to dress for the weather! See you tomorrow.

Have you used our clinic? Interested in participating in research around this new model of care? Check out this poster with details about how to participate!

It might have been a tiny bit chilly but we’re continuing with our outdoor group postpartum sessions for as long as we can!

NEW PROGRAM ALERT! We are so excited to be launching this new weekly program. Every Wednesday at 11am, we’ll be hosting a 1hr virtual breastfeeding drop-in. This is an opportunity to ‘meet’ with a midwife/lactation consultant and ask all your breastfeeding questions. Registration is required for this one you can contact us at [email protected] or 705-445-4243 to register.

Let’s meet in person! Sunset Point at our usual spot. Dress for the weather and if it’s too cold sitting, we’ll go for a walk together.

#waveoflight2020

Join us today @7pm for the #waveoflight2020 as we honour babies we have lost through miscarriage, stillbirth, medical termination and infant death

Fingers crossed Mother Nature cooperates!

As many as one in five pregnancies end in miscarriage, and each year in Canada there are approximately six stillborn infants in 1000 total births. On October 15, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, we acknowledge and remember these losses, as well as the unique grief bereaved parents experience. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day also provides the opportunity to show support to the many families across Canada who have suffered the loss of a pregnancy or the death of... an infant. Join us today at 7pm and light a candle in support of #waveoflight2020. For more information and events happening today, please check out: https://pailnetwork.sunnybrook.ca//pregnancy-and-infant-l/

We’ll plan to meet rain or shine! Meet us at 1pm for a walk, or 2pm for physically distanced circle time in the park. See you tomorrow!

While we are open for clinical care 365 days/year, we took a little break from social media while Natalie was on vacation... But we’re back! And we missed you! Fingers crossed Mother Nature gets it together before Thursday’s group session- it would be great to squeeze in a few more outdoor sessions before winter!

Vacation Alert! Natalie is away the next two weeks and Midwife Julie will be hosting Group Postpartum! Look for our group at Sunset Point Park between the Inukshuk and the Chipper on Thursday afternoon from 1-3pm. In case of inclement weather, join us virtually instead: Videoconference: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85462044084 Teleconference: 1.855.703.8985 or 1.647.558.0588... Meeting ID: 854 6204 4084 Password: 531957 See more

A powerful reminder that everybody’s breastfeeding journey is different. Sometimes it’s straightforward, sometimes it’s more complicated. Reaching out for help is an important step. Call or email us if you need some help along your journey

Struggling with the transition to parenthood? Check this out and never hesitate to ask for help

We’re looking forward to Thursday! Keep an eye on our social media if the weather will make us change our plans

We love our Thursday afternoon group sessions We meet every Thursday 1-3pm and will continue with physically distanced outdoor sessions as long as Mother Nature cooperates. Wishing everybody a great weekend!

We can’t always be everything to everyone, all the time. Struggling and want to chat? Join us for our group postpartum session Thursday afternoon from 1-3pm at Sunset Point Park.

The weather looks great on Thursday. Looking forward to seeing everybody!

For anybody who's struggling, you are not alone. Reach out for help <3

We support your choices and breastfeeding goals. And we know things sometimes don’t go the way you planned; we’re here to support you through that too

An awesome community initiative to check out with your littles!