The New Mummy Company

01/31/2026

This week's cover the three phases of breast milk. Each one is vital in nourishing your baby. 💛

01/28/2026

01/27/2026

Advocating for breastfeeding support shouldn’t be complicated.

We’ve created a simple, downloadable letter you can send to your MLA/MPP asking them to support the Baby-Friendly Initiative as a standard of care in Canada.

Small action. Big impact.

Take action here:
https://breastfeedingcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/BFI-Advocacy-Letter-2026.docx

01/26/2026

It’s a snow day in Oakville on Monday January 26th! Our store will be closed due to the weather but our phones will be operating as normal!

01/25/2026

01/23/2026

01/15/2026

Like so many other businesses in and the GTA today our store is closed but we are all working from home and our phone lines are working as normal! We will keep you posted on tomorrow!

01/13/2026

We had a great class today with for our 10am Pelvic Floor Core Restore class! We can’t wait to have you join us next week! Your first class is free and all you need is the coupon code STRONGCORE to use at check out to get your first class on us!

01/03/2026

We start Tuesday at 10am with
A 45 minute mat based class, baby beside you!
Free parking. No equipment required for the class as everything is provided for you!

Have you found a postnatal fitness class yet?
If you have questions then please reach out!

01/01/2026

Your first class is free so you have no reason not to try out our and core restore class on Tuesday mornings at 10am!

WHAT WE OFFER!
Babies are welcome!
Free parking!
Convenient location at Bronte & Dundas
Great instructors! You just met
Excellent pricing & no hidden fees!
No equipment required - we have it all!
No experience required - come as you are!
Suitable for pregnancy and postpartum!
Short 45 minute class!
Meet other moms and babies!
Diaper changing station!
We could go on but you get the idea!

12/27/2025

We all need to take a regular CPR course and we can help you with this either in a group class in Oakville or in your home anywhere in the GTA!

BRAMPTON TEACHER SURVIVES CARDIAC ARREST IN NYC, THANKS TO STEPSON’S CPR

Brampton phys-ed teacher Lindsay MacOdrum is lucky to be alive.

While the 41-year-old resident of Rockwood — about 80 kilometres northwest of Toronto — was biking through New York City’s Central Park on June 15 with her family, she suffered a cardiac arrest and had no pulse for 30 minutes.

Dr. Dan Pugliese, her doctor at New York City’s Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, credits her recovery on the fact that her 17-year-old stepson, Maddox, performed CPR on her right away.

“It’s the reason you’re able to talk to her now,” said Pugliese, a specialist in heart rhythm disorders.

“CPR is critical at maintaining blood flow. It basically externally compresses the heart and it pumps the blood through the body and, in short, the brain is able to get enough blood flow so the brain stays preserved.”

Otherwise, the situation was dire: MacOdrum was given a 10% chance of surviving on the way to the hospital as she was shocked five times by paramedics hoping to revive her. The Central Park Ambulance team also administered shocks to her two times before that.

“I kind of took my last breath and I kind of started foaming at the mouth,” said MacOdrum, who happened to be in New York while attending her nine-year-old son, Tommy’s hockey tournament in New Jersey.

“They actually thought I was having a seizure. So (my husband) was calling for help right away and then they realized, I’m actually not breathing. I was like dead ,” added MacOdrum, whose treatment was covered by OHIP.

“So then Maddox, my stepson, started CPR. He said to my husband, ‘OK, we need to do CPR, we need to start it.’ What’s wild is the week before, he did a CPR course for his camp counsellor job,” she added. “Like what are the chances? It was insane. He’s like my angel.”

The elementary school teacher said a doctor and a nurse, who happened to be in Central Park, took over on CPR for another six minutes before the Central Park ambulance arrived.

In a coma after arriving at the hospital, medical personnel put MacOdrum on a ventilator and her parents and brother were advised to make the trip to say their goodbyes.

“My family flew in that night because they weren’t sure if I would make it through the night,” said MacOdrum. “It’s a miracle that I’m alive.”

It turns out MacOdrum had some earlier symptoms — which she ignored. She’d had to pause during her daily runs because she was out of breath, she felt tired when she was teaching, and just days before, she felt shoulder pain while watching her son’s hockey tournament.

“We have to be mindful of times when something’s not quite right,” said Pugliese. “Younger people are much more willing to say, ‘No, I’m young, I’m healthy. I’m fine. Let me just kind of push through.’”

Five days later in hospital, MacOdrum started to improve and a cardiac MRI detected she had an irregular heart beat linked to an undetected weakening of the heart muscle, which ultimately put her in heart failure and led to cardiac arrest.

Cardiologists did an emergency procedure to place a defibrillator in her heart — a device that delivers a shock when required to ensure the organ beats in a normal rhythm.

After 12 days in the hospital, MacOdrum was able to fly home on a commercial flight with a nurse at her side.

“Sudden cardiac death is pretty rare in general — it’s sort of one in 1,000 in the U.S.,” said Pugliese.

“But most of those people will have significant known cardiac disease. They tend to be older, they tend to have other medical problems — high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, things like that,” he said. “So, in general, it’s a pretty rare thing for a young, otherwise healthy person, who exercises regularly, has no real medical problems, to — for lack of a better term — drop dead.”

Right now, MacOdrum is walking about eight kilometres daily and doing some light weight training, with an eye to returning to work in January.

“One thing I’ve learned is if there is anything you’re not sure of, go get it checked out because you never know,” she said. “And more people need to take a CPR course.”

By Jane Stevenson
Toronto Sun