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Pelvic Floor Physio in Montreal: Who Assesses, When, and What It Costs
Pelvic Floor. We have all heard it. We don’t really know why it’s floor-related. At some point you realize you’d like to...
Everyone Came to See the Baby
The house was full for three weeks. A grandmother in the guest room, a sister on the pull-out couch, a neighbour who...
Going Back to Work and Handing Over the Feeding
The return date is decided before your little person even arrives, often. In Quebec the parental benefits have to wrap up within...
The Clothes
Most of the people I visit in the first month are wearing some version of the same four things. Maternity leggings with...
The First Period
The bleeding right after birth gets explained at least once before anyone goes home. The period that turns up afterwards gets explained...
The Birth You Didn’t Have
The conversation almost never starts with the birth. It starts with the baby’s sleep, with whether the stitches are supposed to still...
Feeding to Sleep
Nine in the evening, the baby has started snoring at the breast or on the last ounce of the bottle, and you...
When the Other Parent Goes Back to Work
Quebec gives the non-birthing parent five weeks, or three on the special plan, and the weeks are not transferable, so almost everyone...
Postpartum Recovery and Support as a New Parent
You have the baby, you go home, you rest, and gradually you feel like yourself again: linear, nice sequence. That is not...
What a Postpartum Doula Really Does (and Why You Might Need One)
A postpartum doula shows up after the baby does, and stays for the weeks that follow. What that actually looks like once...