South Shore Perinatal Wellness Collective

06/02/2025

Last chance to register for our FREE Restore Postpartum Rehab Program! Email programs@ourhealthcentre.ca for more info or to register.

Our FREE Restore Postpartum Rehab Program is currently accepting applicants for a Feb 21 - March 28 program, running Friday mornings at 9:00am at the Royal Canadian Legion in Chester Basin, in partnership with Our Health Centre.

Our bodies undergo enormous change during pregnancy and postpartum. Many changes that can turn into larger challenges down the road (e.g. weight gain, incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, deconditioning, pain, diastasis recti, depression and anxiety) can improve significantly via regular exercise. Our program offers a considerable dose of the types of exercise we know benefit mamas most: pelvic floor and core muscle training, strengthening exercise, and high intensity interval training. It also equips participants with the knowledge and skills they need to exercise at home or at other fitness classes in ways that will benefit their physical and mental health (and the physical and mental health of their children) and enable them to recover from pregnancy and birth-related health challenges.

Email programs@ourhealthcentre.ca for more info or to register. Big thank you to Our Health Centre Foundation for their support and enthusiasm for this unique program.

09/01/2025

Our FREE Restore Postpartum Rehab Program starts tomorrow, and again Feb. 21, 2025. Tell your friends! Any mother is welcome to attend. Register for our February program by emailing programs@ourhealthcentre.ca

Hot off the presses just in time for our FREE Restore Postpartum Rehab Program beginning tomorrow and again in late February in collaboration with Our Health Centre:

This new systematic review highlights the potential of exercise for mitigating postpartum mood disorders, showing that accumulating 80 minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week postpartum can significantly reduce the severity of postpartum depression and anxiety, and reduce the risk of developing postpartum depression. That's as little as 15 minutes 5x a week!

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/12/28/bjsports-2024-108478

And here's another showing that postpartum pelvic floor muscle exercise can reduce the prevalence of postpartum urinary incontinence by 37%, and subjective symptoms of prolapse by 56%, while postpartum abdominal exercise can significantly improve diastasis recti.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/12/17/bjsports-2024-108619

We will be doing all three of these types of exercise at our postpartum rehab program! Tell your friends about this great free program supporting mothers' physical and mental wellness.

06/12/2024

Struggling to feel like yourself again, or with symptoms like incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, diastasis recti, or low back pain postpartum? Join us for our FREE Restore Postpartum Rehab Program this winter. Registration is now open.

Our free postpartum rehab program is back!!!

This winter we will run two 6-week programs in partnership with Our Health Centre : Jan 10 - Feb 14, and Feb 21 - Mar 28. Registration is now open, with priority registration for residents of Chester Municipality until December 15. Email programs@ourhealthcentre.ca to register.

The Restore Postpartum Rehab Program is designed to support the physical and mental health of mothers through graded HIIT, strengthening, pelvic floor, and core exercise, + a mamas' social after class. The class is child-friendly - babies and children of all ages are welcome to attend. Women are welcome to attend at any stage of postpartum recovery beyond 6 weeks - we've even had grandmothers attend.

Most mothers do not have much opportunity to focus on their own health or rehab following childbirth - and many experience challenges such as deconditioning (ongoing reductions in physical & mental health and fitness), pain, pelvic organ prolapse, postpartum depression, and incontinence, that can be effectively addressed through graded rehab and regular exercise.

Please help us spread the word about this free program, which many local women are finding very helpful for supporting their physical and mental health.

06/12/2024

Registration is now open for our FREE Restore Postpartum Rehab Program!

Returning to exercise after childbirth can be a challenge for many women - not just because of time constraints and caregiving responsibilities, but also because it can be pretty challenging to listen to your body and figure out where and how to start when your body feels completely different than it ever has before!

Canada's national guidelines for postpartum exercise recommend returning to exercise within the first 12 weeks postpartum - for nourishing postpartum physical and mental health. This is in opposition with the well meaning advice women often receive from family members and healthcare providers to take it easy for many months postpartum.

The FREE Restore Postpartum Rehab Program we offer in partnership with Our Health Centre is designed to help women regain strength and resilience following the challenges of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. Registration for our January & February programs is open now - contact programs@ourhealthcentre.ca to register.

24/10/2024

Save the date for the upcoming NS Perinatal Mental Health Symposium! Watch from home, or attend the free screening at The Living Room (inside the South Shore Centre) in Bridgewater. Great opportunity to learn about prenatal & postpartum mental health for: people who are thinking of becoming pregnant, people who are pregnant, new parents, people who've been parents for a while, and healthcare providers.

https://cpmhc.ca/nova-scotia-perinatal-mental-health-symposium-ns-cpmhc-chapter/

29/09/2024

Calling expectant families of the South Shore:
The South Shore Perinatal Wellness Collective is thrilled to be delivering a holistic prenatal class this fall: receive the nourishment and information you need to feel confident in navigating your transition to parenthood, from nutrition to infant feeding, mental health to matrescence, labour and delivery to postpartum recovery.
This is not a class to miss!

Dates: 5 weeks: October 17, 24, November 7, 14, 21, 2024; 6-8 pm
Mahone Bay Centre
Class information here: https://taylorchinenere.ca/becoming-a-holistic-prenatal-class-for-south-shore-nova-scotia/
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28/09/2024

There is still time to register for the South Shore Perinatal Wellness Centre’s holistic prenatal class, beginning in October. More information and how to register here:

https://taylorchinenere.ca/becoming-a-holistic-prenatal-class-for-south-shore-nova-scotia/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZrwsXLz6r35r8VezmD16cWb2lL_Lf2IZjAQ0EZcd7c1e6uWluLn3V4TIA_aem_i2_oj7rvxI8jKU28--3R1w

Holistic prenatal class for South Shore Nova Scotia families. Lunenburg and queens county.

18/09/2024

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Our local South Shore libraries host a lovely babies and books program, and I will be popping in to offer baby weight checks, feeding support, and to chat any other infant development topics that pop up! This is an entirely free program 🩷
Locations:
Bridgewater (Wednesday Mornings at 10:30 am); Margaret Hennigar Public Library
Lunenburg (Thursday Mornings at 10:30 am); Lunenburg Library located inside Lunenburg Academy Foundation.

Can’t wait to see you there! 🥰 I love our libraries.
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18/09/2024

Our local South Shore libraries host a lovely babies and books program, and I will be popping in to offer baby weight checks, feeding support, and to chat any other infant development topics that pop up! This is an entirely free program 🩷
Locations:
Bridgewater (Wednesday Mornings at 10:30 am); Margaret Hennigar Public Library
Lunenburg (Thursday Mornings at 10:30 am); Lunenburg Library located inside Lunenburg Academy Foundation.

Can’t wait to see you there! 🥰 I love our libraries.

08/09/2024

Check out this new resource for mamas & babies in Queens County: Bump to Baby Fitness, offering fitness classes for pregnant & postpartum mamas. More info is available on their page.

29/08/2024

Parents' mental health is a powerful predictor of children's health and wellbeing.

If you're struggling with your mental health, or would like to be proactive and connect with other parents to support and nourish each other in a supportive environment, consider checking out this new support group in Bridgewater, NS. An online option is also available.

20/08/2024

This isn’t your mama’s labour and delivery class, but it will leave you feeling informed, supported, and confident to navigate pregnancy, labour, birth, and all that the postpartum transition will bring our way.
Class is in session at the Mahone Bay Centre October 17, 24, November 17, and 24, 2024.
Will you join us?