Being an adult is challenging. Eating well three times a day, every day, for an entire life is one of those things. Doing so while you are also responsible for feeding another being that is growing inside of you at an alarming...
Read MoreEllen had four babies at Whitehorse General Hospital. Her births were always fast and sheliked the support that she got at the hospital. In her fifth pregnancy her baby was diagnosed with spina bifida at the 20 week ultrasound....
Read MoreOk, so when I hear the words “pelvic floor” the folks I think of are pregnant women and the elderly. It’s also a term that has come up in yoga classes, usually in the context of maintaining strength en route to joining one...
Read More“I would have loved to have had midwifery care and a home birth for all my pregnancies, but that wasn’t possible,” says Christine, a Whitehorse resident.When she was pregnant with her first baby and two months away from her due...
Read MoreErin found out she was pregnant when she was 17. She still lived with her parents and had just finished high school.Her relationship with her boyfriend was complicated. She had friends who had had an abortion, and friends who...
Read MoreIt’s 1929, Virginia Woolf publishes her famous extended feminist essay, called “A Room ofOne’s Own,” exploring the gender disparity between women and men. Fast forward to 2016 and discussion around gender politics has widened...
Read MoreThe excitement of a pregnancy is fuelled by the unknown and profound changes that it brings to you and your family.Filling in that information to make it a little less “unknown” can be a daunting task as you navigate from...
Read MoreWhen a woman is eight months pregnant, posing for a picture is not a very enticing concept. The art of portraiture is so often wrapped up in our self-esteem, and pregnancy can hit that a little hard. Along with the joy, hope and...
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