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Ensemble Healthcare - Multidisciplinary Perinatal Care

Ensemble Healthcare is a multidisciplinary healthcare collective in Northwest Calgary.

10/02/2025

*Our counsellor, Caitie Jane Parsons, explains Internal Family Systems!*

Internal Family Systems (IFS) work is an effective, science-based tool to support mental health. In her blog, Caitie Jane, provides an easy to follow introduction to IFS and explains how it can be helpful in pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood.

Link in bio to learn from Caitie Jane!

09/25/2025

📣 Our next Postpartum Group starts October 29th! 📣

For families with babies born or due in August through October.

Weekly one-hour sessions with one of our experts covering topics such as:

👶 Infant Feeding
🌛 Infant (and Parent) Sleep
🙂 Postpartum Recovery
💚 Postpartum Mental Health
👶🏾 Infant Development and Headshape
☺️ Infant Massage

➡ We keep our groups small, bringing together 4-6 families to learn, support and connect.

Details and registration on our website, link in bio!

09/03/2025

Meet Laura! 👋

📣Laura is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Feeding Therapist who is joining our team this month.

🍼🥣Laura was inspired to focus her practice on pediatric feeding after her son's premature delivery was followed by complex feeding needs. Combining her personal experience with years of clinical work in the hospital and community setting, Laura provides families with both child- and family-centered guidance and solutions.

👶🏼 She offers feeding assessments and individualized support for a range of concerns that includes:
▪ poor feeding in newborns
▪ oral aversion
▪ feeding plan advancement for fragile feeders following a hospital stay (respiratory illness, NICU grads, complex medical needs, cardio-respiratory needs)
▪ difficulty starting solids
▪ picky eaters, and
▪ parent concerns or family stress around eating and feeding

📋 Laura's services are often covered by insurance plans.

➡You can learn more about Laura and how she can support your family on our website (link in bio).

07/31/2025

📌 Important update on the policy for support people at the hospital.

Please swipe to read the adjustments to the visitor policy at the hospital as we navigate the current measles outbreak. Measures are in place to keep our babies safe!

07/28/2025

🌟A patient sent me the BEST email last week! 🌟

Building community is one of the main reasons we offer our postpartum groups.

Link in bio to learn more and join our waitlist!

07/23/2025

This is baby J 😍

Her older brother had the distinction of being the first Ensemble baby, and now she is the first Ensemble sibling!

Such a joy caring for this lovely, growing family ❤️

07/07/2025

Meet Caitie Jane! 👋

😀 Caitie Jane is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor who is joining our team in August!

💓 She has a special interest in perinatal mental health after navigating her own journey through perinatal depression. She brings compassion and caring to both her counselling practice and her busy days parenting her daughter.

✅ Caitie Jane's services are often covered by insurance plans.

▶️ You can learn more about Caitie Jane and book a free intro call on our website (link in bio).

06/24/2025

*Our pediatrician LOVES babies, and she loves caring for the PARENTS of babies.*

A big part of that care is providing education and reassurance to parents. In a couple of new blog posts on our website she provides answers to some of the most commonly asked questions.

❓ At what age should my baby start crawling?
➡️ The answer to this one will surprise you!

❓ What are the best toys for baby's brain development?
➡️ Happily the answer to this one won't cost you a thing.

❓ Can I check to see if my baby has any issues with headshape?
➡️ Spoiler: YES!

❓ Does the order of new foods that I offer to baby matter?
➡️ Dr. Racher talks about allergens, iron-rich foods and the only thing you have to avoid in baby's first year of life.

Along with her pearls of reassuring wisdom she provides links to a number of web resources that she often recommends to her patients so that you can read more from a trusted source.

Link in bio to read Dr. Racher's blog posts on our website.

05/17/2025

💉RSV vaccination during pregnancy is a new option in Alberta—and I now discuss it with all of my patients!

I’m so grateful to be part of the Low Risk Maternity Care group—a brilliant team of compassionate and experienced providers. Recently, we gathered to review new research and guidelines, hosted by our education queen, Dr. Janet! One topic we dove into: RSV immunization in pregnancy.

Here are some key takeaways:

➡️ RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) causes serious respiratory illness in infants. Pregnant people who get vaccinated help protect their babies—reducing infections, hospital visits & admissions.

➡️ The vaccine protects babies up to 6 months of age, with the most benefit for those born during RSV season (late fall–spring).

➡️ Another option is RSV antibodies (Nirsevimab or Palivizumab), which can be given to babies after birth. These may be slightly more effective, but they’re currently not available in Alberta.

➡️ One study found a possible link between the RSV vaccine and early labour, but it didn’t show that the vaccine causes it. To be safe, the vaccine is recommended between 32 and 36 weeks of pregnancy, so there’s time for your body to make and share antibodies with your baby before they are born.

➡️ The Pertussis (dTaP) vaccine is also recommended in the third trimester (27–32 weeks). Both the RSV and dTaP vaccines can cause mild side effects, spacing them 6 weeks apart helps us to know which one caused a reaction if it happens.

➡️ Canada recommended RSV vaccination for all pregnant people in Dec 2023, and it became available in Alberta in Oct 2024. It’s not yet covered by Alberta Health, but private insurance may help offset the ~$300 cost.

Let me know if you have questions—we’re here to support you and your baby’s health every step of the way. 💕

05/06/2025

📣 Are you an experienced Pelvic Health Physiotherapist who is looking to move or set up your own practice? 📣

Our physiotherapist, Christine, is heading off an adventure this Fall so we have a one year opening for a full or part-time Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, with the option to continue on part-time after that.

Our team of perinatal care providers includes:
🤰🏾A Family Physician practicing Low Risk Obstetrics
👶A Pediatrician focusing on babies 0-12 months
👋🏽An Osteopath with a focus on infant feeding
💬A Clinical Social Worker focusing on perinatal mental health
😴An Infant Sleep Consultant

We are a collective of entrepreneurs. Practitioners are neither employees, nor contract workers. Rather, they are business owners, working alongside each other to build their brands, with full control of the design, promotion and delivery of their services.

Along with those from within our team, our practitioners receive referrals from other colleagues on our floor including a large Low Risk Obstetrics practice, a counselling practice with a focus on sexual health, and the Breastfeeding clinic that will be opening next door this spring.

Christine is happy to provide both practice and clinical mentorship. On top of pelvic health, she has a special interest in lactation and receives referrals from the breastfeeding clinics to address infant head turn preference & torticollis, latching difficulties, breast pain, blocked ducts, mastitis, and engorgement.

THIS OPPORTUNITY IS IDEAL FOR A PRACTITIONER WHO IS:
✅ Experienced (min 3 years), and looking to start or expand their own business.
✅ Motivated, with an entrepreneurial mindset and the drive to promote and grow their own practice.
✅ Committed to providing compassionate and patient-centered care.
✅ Dedicated to ongoing professional development.
✅ Proven to have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
✅ Able to work independently and as part of our supportive team.

Spread the word to practitioners who may be looking for an opportunity.

DM or email (info@ensemblehealthcare.ca) for more details!

05/03/2025

We celebrated Ensemble’s 2️⃣nd birthday 🎉!

Somehow another year has flown by and I could not be more grateful for this team of wonderful humans that I get to work alongside. They are the best - kind and caring, brilliant and hardworking, and FUN 🤩! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for believing in Ensembles’s mission, and giving your whole hearts to your practices and your patients.

And thank you to for leading us in an amazing yin class to kick off our little party. 🧘🏻‍♀️

Cheers to another year! 🥂

03/01/2025

*A printable to help you pack for the hospital.*

After caring for families on our Labour & Delivery and Postpartum units at the hospital for over 20 years, and being a patient myself with my 3 deliveries, I have a few thoughts on what to pack for a hospital stay. I also consulted with a few our nurses to get their suggestions, so hopefully this list is all you'll need to prep your hospital bag.

📋 I love the resources provided by our local health authority, but the list of what to pack for the hospital needs updating. For instance:

🖊 You no longer need to pack a black pen (birth registration is done online rather than on paper - and you don't have to do it until you go home, so no pressure to choose a name in hospital!).

📱You definitely don't need to pack coins for the payphone since they no longer exist and everyone has a cellphone! Just remember to pack your charger.

❌ I explain why you don't need to pack nursing bras or a birth ball for the hospital.

Send us a DM if there is anything you would add!

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Suite 312, 4935 40th Avenue NW
Calgary, AB
T3A2N1

Website

http://www.ensemblehealthcare.ca/

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