Welcome to the blog! This is a new part of Care For Women where our aim is to provide helpful ideas, strategies and resources for families.
For many, Mother’s Day is a chance to celebrate the women who raised us — with flowers, brunches, and heartfelt cards (take inspiration from the 15 gift ideas in this blog). For countless other moms in Canada, it’s not so simple. In Canada, many moms are quietly...
Parenting is undeniably one of the most challenging roles a person can undertake. As a parent you raise little humans with impressionable minds who are like sponges and are profoundly impacted by all your intended and unintended messaging. These children grow to have...
If you could be a fly on the wall in the home of a new mother, you might see things that rarely make it into Christmas cards. A mom, hair unwashed, dishes piled high, her baby crying in her arms. She still feels new in her recovery from an addiction and is holding on...
Returning to work after maternity leave is one of the biggest transitions a mother can face — and one of the least talked about with any real honesty. You spend months planning and thinking about the arrival of this new life, spend months getting to know the...
Let’s start with an obvious statement:Parenting is hard. Everyone knows that. But what too many people fail to ask are these extremely important questions: What is hard about parenting for me - and where do my parenting triggers come from? Of course parenting is hard....
My heart breaks everytime I hear clients confide in me that they feel lonely, unseen, and unheard ever since becoming a mother. As a clinical counsellor I consider it a privilege to be brought into a person’s inner world. I bear witness to the joys and pains of many...
Today we’re introducing a guest author, who has kindly taken time out of her day to help us to support women in our community who are curious about pelvic floor physiotherapy, and how to rehab their pelvic floor after delivery. Christina Kliewer has been a...
Mom burnout left untreated can lead to blocked care – where do you fall on the mom burnout spectrum? I’ve talked in past blogs about mom burnout and the challenges of parenting. Through my work I’ve come to see that a major indicator of mom burnout (or parenting...
“Congratulations” is a pretty good start when considering what to write in a baby shower card – but it's not the most impactful messages you could send. Although kind words and encouragement are absolutely great for new moms (keep reading to see the stats on this),...
The postpartum period is hard on parents – especially moms, which is why it’s so important to have a team of mom friends as postpartum supports. Yet, creating a circle of social support can be much harder than it sounds, especially postpartum. Motherhood was meant to...