• Prenatal Services

Talk to a Public Health Nurse - If you've got questions on being pregnant and start, please contact your local Public Health Office. A Public Health Nurse will communicate with you, to offer facts and assets.  Education is likewise available in Spanish and Mandarin.

Baby's Best Chance - Parent's Handbook of Pregnancy and Baby Care.  Baby's Best Chance is a Canadian Prenatal aid.This guide covers pregnancy, labour and shipping, breastfeeding, postpartum changes, and parenting.

BRHC Prenatal Mother Baby Unit Virtual Tour  - A  20 minute video of the Mother Baby Unit positioned at the Brandon Regional Health Centre.  This virtual excursion takes you via the journey of while you pass into labour, arriving at the hospital to being discharged and the comply with up care you could get admission to after you are domestic. 

Healthy Baby Program - A drop in software where you may ask questions about being pregnant and find out about prenatal health, meet other dad and mom, enjoy a healthful snack and do sports. These sessions are available in communities at some stage in PMH.  Click right here to go to our Public Classes page and view the today's Healthy Baby time table.

Additional Resources:  WRHA's Healthy Parenting and ManitobaParentZone

• Midwifery Services

For information about Midwife offerings in Prairie Mountain Health, click right here.

• Postpartum Support

Public Health Nurses during Prairie Mountain Health offer aid, evaluation and education to new households through phone contact and/or domestic visits after leaving the health facility.  The nurse offers aid and information to new mothers and households on maternal and infant care, breastfeeding, toddler feeding, attachment, parenting and circle of relatives adjustment.

For extra records, please touch your nearby Public Health Office.

• Child Health Clinics

Public Health Nurses offer education and counselling concerning child care, nutrients, protection, breastfeeding, parenting and community sources. Immunization is obtainable in keeping with the Manitoba formative years immunization time table.  Immunization is offered in step with Manitoba’s Routine Immunization Schedule for Infant’s and Pre-faculty Children. 

For greater facts or to agenda an appointment, please touch your nearby Public Health Office.

Routine Immunization Schedule for Infants and Pre-School Children (MB Health)

Nutrition and Feeding Information

Feeding Your Breastfed Baby, 6 Months - 1 Year (MB Health)

Feeding Your Baby, 6 Months - 1Year (MB Health) 

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• Breastfeeding Support

Public Health group of workers promote and aid breastfeeding families. Many Public Health body of workers have specialised schooling associated with breastfeeding. 

Health Canada recommends toddlers obtain handiest breastmilk until 6 months of age, and that breastfeeding with appropriate complimentary ingredients keeps up to 2 years of age and beyond.

Breastfeeding is wholesome, unfastened, natural, and handy. Breastmilk incorporates antibodies that decrease the danger of your child getting ill.

Contact your neighborhood Public Health Office for a Public Health Nurse.

For greater data on breastfeeding your infant, please see the following sources:

Breastfeeding Monthly: April 2016 Breastfeeding and Baby's Teeth

Getting Help with Breastfeeding (MB Health)

Breastfeeding - Your Baby's First Food (MB Health)

Breastfeeding - Baby Friendly Manitoba Strategy (MB Health)

10 Great Reasons to Breastfeed Your Baby (Public Health Agency of Canada)

• Healthy Baby Program

The Healthy Baby Program supports pregnant women and mother and father with babies as much as 365 days of age via the Healthy Baby Prenatal Benefit and Community Support Programs. 

Healthy Baby Prenatal Benefit

Families may be eligible to acquire a month-to-month cheque to help with the acquisition of wholesome ingredients all through pregnancy. 

Community Support Programs

Healthy Baby organizations are offered in many groups at some stage in Prairie Mountain Health.  They provide help and facts periods for pregnant girls and families with youngsters less than three hundred and sixty five days of age.  Childminding for older youngsters may be available.  Healthy Baby community support applications additionally offer a healthful snack and milk coupons (as much as sixteen litres) for prenatal ladies and postnatal families with infants up to 6 months of age. 

Please go to Healthy Child Manitoba for more data on classes close to you and/or an utility for the Prenatal benefit. 

For greater statistics, please touch your nearby Public Health Office.

• Families First

Families First focuses on constructing strong family relationships, improving parenting capabilities, fostering healthy increase and development, and connecting households to resources. The Families First application offers records to the prenatal and preschool population on parenting, increase and development, early child development, attachment, health, safety and nutrients. Some families are offered a home travelling software where ongoing touch and assist can arise for up to three years in the domestic. This carrier is available for families with children prenatal to 5 years of age.

Learn More:  Healthy Child Manitoba - Families First

Please touch your local Public Health Office for greater records approximately offerings and sources in your own family.

• Parent Child Coalition Program Partnerships

Parent Child Coalitions are funded by using Healthy Child Manitoba. Coalitions bring collectively people and organizations that have a vested hobby in wholesome families and ultimate child development and are interested in operating with parents, caregivers and carrier providers to support families and their kids.

Coalitions guide current packages and sports inside communities and provoke new sports that reflect each network’s range and specific desires.

Coalitions offer figure-infant applications for households with youngsters zero-five years old, which consciousness on learning and literacy, physical activity and vitamins, and parenting.

Government of Manitoba - Parent Child Coalitions.

Manitoba Parent Child Coalitions

Learn About Coalitions in or near Your Community: