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Postpartum Doula | Peer Support | Community Care
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Helping parents build their village
Haldimand Tract (Waterloo Region)
Member The Collaborative Doula Collective

10/30/2025

This is your chance to make food support simple, practical, and truly nourishing.

The Meal Train Toolkit was created to help you bring ease and community care into your postpartum experience. Inside, you’ll find:
✨ Easy, nutrient-dense recipes designed for recovery and energy
✨ Guidance on what your body needs during postpartum
✨ Gentle scripts to help you ask your village for food support—without the awkwardness

Because feeding yourself after birth shouldn’t feel like one more thing on your to-do list.

Sign up for the Postpartum Sidekick newsletter to get your free Meal Train Toolkit and start building a circle of care that feeds you in every sense of the word.

Your postpartum journey doesn’t have to be done alone—let your community step in.

https://postpartumsidekick.ca/2025/10/postpartum-nutrition/

10/29/2025

New Parent Coffee Club is happening next week!

When: Thursday, November 6 | 2:00–3:30 PM
Where: Seven Shores Community Cafe, 10 Regina St N, Waterloo
Cost: Free to attend—just grab a drink & join in!

The room is provided based on a minimum spend. If you'd like your snack purchases to count toward that minimum, please be ready to e-transfer info@postpartumsidekick.ca or bring cash. I need to cover the tab at the end of the meetup.

Bring your baby, bring a friend, or come solo—everyone is welcome! No RSVP needed, just drop in, grab a coffee, and connect with other parents who *get it.*

We can’t wait to see you and your little one! 💜

10/27/2025

✨ Our Guest This Week ✨

Join us this week for a Birth Story Circle with Jess Lyle, , followed by facilitated peer support time.

Save your seat: https://postpartumsidekick.ca/community/nurture-thrive/

About:
Jess is a certified VBAC doula and founder of The VBAC Mom, serving families in KW, Guelph, Fergus, and surrounding communities.

As a mom who has experienced both a cesarean and a VBAC, she understands firsthand the diverse paths that birthing journeys can take. Jess is deeply committed to supporting and empowering parents throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. She provides evidence-based information and resources so families can make informed choices and feel confident in their care.

Through personalized support and compassionate guidance, Jess creates a nurturing environment where you feel empowered, informed, and respected every step of the way.

10/20/2025

✨ Our Guest This Week ✨

Join us this week to hear about normal infant sleep, utilizing routines, timing and response for restorative sleep with Bedtime followed by facilitated peer support time.

Bridget Jensen is founder of Better Bedtime, a full-service sleep consultancy based in Waterloo Region and is the Canadian Director of the Association of Professional Sleep Consultants. She offers in-home and virtual sleep support to tired families. Bridget has been helping families with sleep since 2015 and is dedicated to helping people get the rest they need.

10/17/2025

We all have that one meal that feels like a warm hug after a hard day. The one that reminds you to slow down, breathe, and take care of yourself for a moment.

Maybe it’s soup that tastes like home, the pasta you always turn to when you’re tired, or a favourite takeout order you know by heart. Comfort food can mean so many things—but it always means care.

What’s your go-to comfort meal when you need to feel grounded or recharged? Share it below—your idea might just inspire another tired parent.

If you’re looking for simple, nourishing recipes to help your body heal after birth (and ways to get your support system involved), sign up for my newsletter to get your free Meal Train Toolkit. It’s full of postpartum-friendly meal ideas, nutrition info, and easy ways to ask for help with food support.

Read more here: https://postpartumsidekick.ca/2025/10/postpartum-nutrition/

10/16/2025

This weekend!

Saturday October 18 from 9am-1pm at the Kitchener Farmers Market

https://postpartumsidekick.ca/in-good-hands/

Join us for an inclusive, community-centered event designed to help parents, caregivers, and parents-to-be connect with the resources, services, and people that can support them through every stage of their parenting journey. Whether you’re expecting your first baby or growing your family, this event is all about building your village—through connection, care, and community. Come explore local vendors, discover family-focused services, and meet others walking a similar path. Everyone is welcome—because parenting is never meant to be done alone.

Includes:
Local vendors & small businesses
Wellness services
Parenting resources
Peer support groups
Speakers

10/13/2025

✨ Our Guest This Week ✨

Join us this week to talk about ways to love your postpartum body with Rhonda Chamberlain, PT, followed by facilitated peer support time.

Grab your seat: https://postpartumsidekick.ca/services/nurture-thrive/

Rhonda Chamberlain (she/her) is a mom to 2 girls, physiotherapist and pre/postnatal fitness coach.

She has been practicing as a physiotherapist since 2010, including 10 years in a gym setting. She started her own virtual physiotherapy and fitness coaching business in May 2020 with a mission to help moms return to exercise with the support of a physiotherapist.

Her love of exercise began at 3 when she started competitive gymnastics, a sport that she competed in for over 12 years. She now finds her passion in strength training, and in inspiring women to realize how strong they really are!

After having a more challenging recovery with her second daughter, she found a passion for all things pregnancy and postpartum. She attained her Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism Coach Certificate in March 2020, and has continued to learn and expand into this specialty since.

Her mission is to help busy moms ditch the all-or-nothing mindset and fit strength training into their lives in a realistic and sustainable way.

10/12/2025

I’m thrilled to officially launch the Meal Train Toolkit — a project I developed as part of my Professional Perinatal Nutrition Program course with The Food Doula.

Postpartum recovery is challenging, and food support can make a huge difference. The Meal Train Toolkit gives you everything you need to make asking for help simple, practical, and nourishing:

• A step-by-step guide to building a meal train that actually works
• Tips for asking loved ones — near or far — for support
• Two delicious, postpartum-friendly recipes
• Ready-to-send text and email scripts so requesting help feels easy

Whether you’re pregnant, newly postpartum, or planning ahead for someone you love, this toolkit helps take one task off your plate so you can focus on rest, healing, and bonding.

Sign up for the newsletter and get your free Meal Train Toolkit straight to your inbox today.

https://postpartumsidekick.ca/2025/10/postpartum-nutrition/

10/11/2025

There are some great vendors coming to In Good Hands: Community Parenting Show

Lots of great local resources to help you build your community while you transition into parenthood.

Hope to see you on Saturday October 18th at the Kitchener Market!

10/10/2025

Postpartum nutrition isn’t about “bouncing back.” It’s about rebuilding — your body, your energy, and your sense of self.

Your body just did something incredible. Now it deserves care that goes beyond the baby. But between feeding schedules, sleepless nights, and figuring out what’s for dinner, it’s easy to forget that you need nourishment, too.

That’s why I wrote my latest blog post, “Why Postpartum Nutrition Matters (and How to Build a Meal Train That Nourishes You in Every Way).”

It’s a gentle reminder that food is more than fuel — it’s community care. Inside, I share how nutrition supports healing, why postpartum depletion is real, and how you can use a meal train to get the support you deserve.

And to make it easier, I’ve created a free Meal Train Toolkit to help you take this from idea to action.
You’ll get:
• A simple guide to setting up a meal train that actually works
• Tips on how to ask for help (even from people you don’t see every day)
• Two delicious, postpartum-friendly recipes
• Ready-to-send text and email scripts for asking your village to pitch in

You’re not meant to do this alone. Let’s build your village — one delicious dish at a time.

✨ Read the blog and grab your free toolkit here: https://postpartumsidekick.ca/2025/10/postpartum-nutrition/

10/09/2025

Hope to see you later today!

📅 When: Thursday, October 9 | 2:00–3:30 PM
📍 Where: Seven Shores Community Cafe, 10 Regina St N, Waterloo
💰 Cost: Free to attend—just grab a drink & join in!

The room is provided based on a minimum spend. If you'd like your snack purchases to count toward that minimum, please be ready to e-transfer info@postpartumsidekick.ca or bring cash. I need to cover the tab at the end of the meetup.

🌿 Bring your baby, bring a friend, or come solo—everyone is welcome! No RSVP needed, just drop in, grab a coffee, and connect with other parents who *get it.*

We can’t wait to see you and your little one! 💜

10/06/2025

✨ Our Guest This Week ✨

Join us this week to hear about infant massage with followed by facilitated peer support time.

About:
A self-proclaimed “anatomy- geek”, Pam Lawson chose to follow her dream and graduated from the Canadian College of Massage and Hydrotherapy in May 2018. With a passion for women’s and family health, she has seen first-hand the benefits of massage on those suffering from chronic pain, respiratory disease as well as digestive concerns. While in school, she built on her education with a placement with Trimesters prenatal course in Toronto, having the opportunity to work with high risk, post-partum and laboring mothers at Sunnybrook Hospital.

Combining soothing massage with analytical assessments and thinking, Pam uses various modalities to achieve effective results. She has been trained in Swedish massage, as well as myofascial release, joint mobilizations, manual lymph drainage and trigger point therapy, among others. Pam plans to further her knowledge over the course of her career by taking continuing courses in manual lymph drainage and visceral manipulation.

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+12262438787

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https://postpartumsidekick.ca/

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