Community Midwives of Halton

01/01/2026

Happy New Year from our on call team at 🎇 We hope everyone has a happy and healthy holiday season. From left to right we have Paige, Kiran, Andrea, and Pamela. Did you have a baby with us in 2025? Let us know in the comments below!

10/16/2025

Our CMOH family is growing! Today we celebrated Jocelyn’s upcoming bundle of joy! Team 5 and the rest of the practice will miss her when she starts her parental leave next month. Please share your well wishes in the comments below. 💖✨

12/27/2024

Your lovely on call team catching the Sale on Boxing Day Babies! 3 done, 2 to go! We are grateful that they all waited until after the 25th 😌 For those celebrating the various holidays this week, we hope you had a joyous Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Kwanza!

12/18/2024

Last week celebrated our annual holiday party! Sadly we are missing a few faces as babies had other plans for them! We enjoyed a signature drink this year called SROM (spontaneous rupture of membranes) Kiss! We love to take the time to celebrate each other and look forward to the year ahead. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our CMOHalton family, to yours ❤️

07/19/2024

We have some bittersweet news. This was midwife Aisha’s last week at Community Midwives of Halton. We are very sad to see Aisha go, but we are very happy that she pursuing her interest of travelling and will be starting with Calgary, AB! Anyone who has met Aisha knows her contagious sense of humour! (Hence the card😝). Please leave your well wishes for Aisha in the comments below 💜

05/28/2024

Breastfeeding Basics 🤰🏽
Hosted by the Community Midwives of Halton
You deserve the best possible start to breastfeeding! Join our class to learn all of Ashley’s secrets to help you achieve YOUR own feeding goals!
Feeding your baby is natural and normal, however it’s a skill like anything else and takes time to master. Your baby is wise, and will be born knowing just how to feed. Our class focuses on navigating your baby’s behaviours and cues, so you know exactly what they need, when they need it!
Join me and other families-to-be to enhance your knowledge of breastfeeding your baby. Through understanding how to read your baby’s communication, identify problems and work through common challenges, this class will help you gain confidence in your feeding success. Learn how to listen to your intuition, how to get out of your baby’s way, and remain ready to meet your babies’ needs while meeting your own.
We will discuss:
- Breast anatomy, System of milk production & Milk removal
- Easy steps to get the best start possible
- Optimal latching, reflexive latching
- Secrets of consistent milk flow
- Signs of a well fed baby
- Common Barriers and how to avoid them
- Pumping & bottle feeding
- Ages and stages, what to expect
- Common Breastfeeding challenges, and when to get help
Consider this an add-on or extension of the traditional breastfeeding class content. I design the cirriculum to cover information above and beyond the typical prenatal info with a focus on the practical steps you may wish to take to optimize feeding in the first hours, days and weeks!
WHEN: Second Tuesday of each month.
- Virtual Class @ 430-600pm
- In person Class at Milton Site @ 615-745pm
Class fee: $50

Please enroll by emailing CMOH.classes@gmail.com
Check out other events on my website - Linktree in bio or hea over to AshleyPickett.com
I look forward to learning with you!

05/27/2024

Are you pregnant and concerned about postpartum depression? Or know someone who is?

McMaster University is recruiting participants for a research study to determine if a 1-day workshop designed to prevent postpartum depression (PPD) is effective.

***Next workshop is this Saturday May 25, 2024, 9AM-4PM!***

You may be eligible to participate if you
✨live in Ontario,
✨are 18 years of age or older,
✨are in the third trimester of pregnancy, and
✨are not currently depressed but have had a depressive episode in the past

For more information or to register please email ppdprev@mcmaster.ca or sign-up directly here: https://ow.ly/9vQ950RT8ul

Half of participants who enroll in the study will be invited to participate in a workshop. All participants will receive $80 in gift cards for completing the study.
Halton Healthcare Community Midwives of Halton Burlington & Area Midwives

~Amanda RN

05/18/2024

Lunarbaboon We think this is pretty cool! We often look at our laboring people with the same awe!

Happy Mother’s Day! https://social.tinyview.com/lhzj7QSoxJb

05/12/2024

Thank you for your love , guidance, and hard work, Mama's and Mama role takers. CMOHalton is grateful for the opportunities to see you become mothers. Thank you for choosing us to walk this path with you.

05/11/2024

We want to wish all of our nursing colleagues a very happy National Nurses day as nurses week comes to a close. We are so grateful for our nurses and all of their hard work! 💜

05/05/2024

Wow we are absolutely blown away by our clients 💜 Thank you Ingrid for your sweet words. We are so happy you felt supported during your experiences with . Posted • Appreciation post for International Midwives Day 💖

I’ve worked with pregnant and postpartum women for over 8 years as a pelvic health physio, and have heard a fair share of pregnancy journeys as well as birth stories. I knew when it was my time, I wanted the care of midwives for me and my baby.
Partly because I wanted to try for home births, because research shows better birth outcomes when you are in a safe and familiar environment. I’ve also heard positive home birth experiences from my clients!
But mostly because I know the midwives I check in with during my pregnancy will also be the ones I deliver with, and they will be with me during the entire birth (i.e. continuous labour care, no shift changes bringing in new ppl while you’re at your most vulnerable).

Even with high expectations of midwifery care, the ladies at have far exceeded them.

❤️ Check in appointments never feel rushed.
❤️ They give me all the information about tests, procedures and treatments so I can make an informed decision.
❤️ I can page them at any time if there was an emergency (for me or for baby).
❤️ During birth, there were only 3 people with me - two midwives and Ernest. Not a room full of unfamiliar people.
❤️ For the first 2-3 weeks postpartum, they came to my home to do the check ups on me and baby.
❤️ They really, truly care - about your physical and emotional health.
❤️ Both births with Avery and Riley went beautifully. It was a dream of mine to have a water birth with A. When it didn’t happen, I had largely given up on it for R. But my midwife, Joanna, gently made it happen, and it really was the best birth possible to me

With midwives, we are so lucky to be given the choice of where to birth and how to birth. And to have that choice is a privilege. Thank you to all the midwives
for your amazing care!

05/05/2024

It’s International Day of the Midwife! 🥳

We are so grateful for the community we serve at . It is a privilege to walk with families during such a special time of life. 💜

Did you have a midwife? 🤰Please share your experience in the comments below! 🤱

We also appreciate seeing midwifery pictures and baby updates! Share any posts or stories using the hashtags and