Enhance Birth

05/28/2024

Celebrating National Multiple Births Awareness Day in Canada!

Today at CPBF, we spotlight the unique challenges faced by families with multiples, particularly those including preemies. Their journey is filled with distinctive experiences and needs.

A multiple pregnancy is at higher risk for premature delivery. Here are some facts about multiple births:

Approximately 56% of twins are born prematurely and require a NICU stay.

Identical multiples face the risk of a life-threatening condition known as Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, which sometimes necessitates delicate laser surgery in utero.

Many multiples, born prematurely and/or with low birth weight, tend to meet developmental milestones later than average.

Join us in honouring and raising awareness for multiple births.

05/26/2024

“We have a secret in our culture, it’s not that birth is painful, it’s that women are strong.”

~ Laura Stavoe Harm

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“Women’s bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.”

~ Sarah Buckley

05/22/2024

“The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you.”

~ Unknown

05/20/2024

“There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby’s. Your body is the child’s instrument of birth.“

~ Penelope Leach

05/18/2024

“Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.”

~ Maya Angelou

05/16/2024

“Although the popularly desired outcome is ‘healthy mother, healthy baby,’ I think there is room in that equation for ‘happy, non-traumatized, empowered and elated mother and baby.’”

~ Midwifery Today

05/14/2024

“If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any.”

~ Diana Korte

05/12/2024

“To speak of birth, to touch people’s hearts and souls and to awaken that part of humankind that has forgotten that it matters enormously how a baby comes into the world – that is our task.”

~ Vicki Chan and Nick Edmondstone

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