Tummy Talks
Tummy Talks is an organization that connects prenatal experts in their field with expectant parents. Their mandate is to bring pregnancy and newborn resources to parents to be in order to help educate and prepare them for the new and exciting phase in their life.
Registered Nurses provide a FREE live and interactive prenatal education series online.
Classes and Information Covered:
Labour & Delivery #1
Signs & stages of labour
Positions for labour
Labour & Delivery #2
What to bring to the hospital
Birth Plans
Medical interventions, pain relief options
Cesarean sections
Cord blood/tissue banking education
Post Partum #1
Physical and emotional changes
Newborn’s World (appearances, behaviours, routines)
Post Partum #2
Safe sleep & an awareness of SIDS
How to tell if your baby is sick & when to call the doctor
Breastfeeding
Dear Baby – Breastfeeding with Joan (Certified Lactation Consultant)
Breastfeeding Basics
Positioning & Holds
Latch Techniques
How to know your baby is doing well
Dear Baby – First Aid Coaching with Irwin
The Principles of First Aid
Breathing Emergencies
Infant and Child CPR
Infant and Child Choking
Wound Care
Register here for the prenatal series.
Register here for the breastfeeding course.
Register here for the first aid course.
THRIVE Prenatal Education For A Fulfilling Birth eCourse
This Canadian course is created by a registered midwife and packed full of evidence-based content focused on the predictors of a satisfying birth, with the goal of teaching you and your support team how to make informed decisions about your health care. When you have the tools necessary to be your own advocate, regardless of the decision that has to be made, intervention offered, or complication that may arise, you’ll feel confident to position yourself at the center of your health care and own your birthing experience.
Information Covered:
- Gaining Informed Decision-Making Skills
- Anatomy & Physiology of Birth
- Diving into the Evidence on Intervention
- Pain Management
- “Birth Plans” and Doulas
- Escalating Concerns & Providing Feedback
Cost: $149.99 CAD
Penny Simkin’s The Three Rs of Labour
Relaxation, Rhythm, Ritual: The 3 Rs of Childbirth
In this updated release of the 3 Rs, Penny adds a new introduction to this childbirth education classic. With newly mastered audio and brightened lighting, Penny shares 23 “scenes” from the labors and births of 10 women, illustrating with moving examples what she often refers to as “The 3 Rs of Childbirth: Relaxation, Rhythm, and Ritual.”
Cost: Rent for $4.95 or Buy for $24.95
Penny Simkin’s Childbirth Preparation for Homebirths
Join Penny on Wednesday nights for a comprehensive eight week series to fully prepare yourself to give birth in an out of hospital setting.
Weeks 1-3 will meet in conjunction with families who are planning a hospital birth, and go over all the topics of late pregnancy, the onset of labor, and working with physiologic birth.
Week 4 will meet on Tuesday, and break out the home birth families to talk about hospital interventions in the context of a transfer. (The hospital class will meet on Wednesday.)
Week 5 will have a special bonus class on Tuesday that is devoted just to practicing comfort measures, to thoroughly prepare you for working with labor contractions. Join the full cohort on Wednesday of Week 5 for a discussion about pain medications and cesarean birth.
Week 6 discusses postpartum topics, and has a labor rehearsal.
Weeks 7 & 8 are taught by a breastfeeding and newborn care specialist.
You will come away from your series feeling confident and prepared with skills to work with labor outside of the hospital, ask keyquestions about your care, communicate your preferences for birth, and transition to your new role as parent of a new tiny human!
Cost: $350
Online Prenatal Program from the Thunder Bay District Health Unit
To REGISTER for FREE InJoy eClasses
- Visit injoyonline.com
- Click on “Create Account”
- Fill out the fields: First and Last Name, Email, Password (enter twice)
- Enter the Access Redemption Code: tbdhubaby
- Click Validate beside code (then green banner saying it validated)
- Click “Agree to terms box”
- Click “Complete”
Prenatal Videos from Holliday Tyson