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Web Links
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Tiny Melyssa at one day old and born at 37 weeks gestation
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Here you will find a listing of web links to related sites organized by category. The Ottawa Coalition for the Prevention of Low Birth Weight is not responsible for the content of the web sites listed below.
The categories are:
Birthing Choices
Canadian Doulas
Looking for a Doula? What is a Doula? How can a Doula help me and my partner with our birthing decisions? Answers to all of these questions and much, much more.
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Parenting Choices
The Ottawa Rotary Home
Provides short term respite care in a warm and loving environment to families who have a child or children with a physical disability such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, or spina bifida. Additional programs include: overnight respite, regular planned relief, pre-school day program, multiple special needs, in house support, and adult respite.
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Ottawa Parent Resource Centre
Bridging the gap between parenting needs and the wide range of resources available. Information and support is provided to parents, caregivers, and professionals working with families.
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Success By Six
Success By 6 is a community partnership dedicated to increasing awareness of and investment in early child development. The goal of Success By 6 is to offer all children a good start in life so that by the time they begin Grade One (age 6), they are physically, socially and emotionally healthy and ready to learn.
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Health Matters
Best Start
A provincial resource centre that seeks to enhance the capacity of service providers to implement effective health promotion programs for expectant and new parents (including both Mom and Dad), newborns and young children.
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City of Ottawa - Planning for a Healthy Baby
Follow the link for City Services, Health, Womens Health, Planning for a Healthy Baby. This site contains good health information for all family members and also has links to City of Ottawa programs and services including prenatal classes.
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Breastfeeding Support
Clothing & Equipment
Ever So Tiny - www.eversotiny.ca
Neo-Natal nurse approved soft cottony knit preemie clothes that fits a baby when graduating from the incubator to a cot. For 3 to 8lbs. babies. Also, the ultimate nursing pillow for twin breast feeding or cuddling one or two babies of all sizes.
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Multiple Births
Multiple Births Canada
Expecting twins, triplets, quadruplets, more? This Site is Canada's national organization for all things multiple birth. Researchers, healthcare professionals, doulas and others will find resource literature, support Networks or the local support Chapter in your area.
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Multiple Births: Prenatal Education & Bereavement Support
Comprehensive Site for families expecting and/or with twins, triplets and more. Support articles for professionals. Includes bereavement support for those losing one, more or all of their multiple birth babies.
Other Resources
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The Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome Foundation
411 Longbeach Parkway
Bay Village, OH 44140 USA
- Tel: 1-800-815-9211
- WS: www.tttsfoundation.org
- EM: info@tttsfoundation.org
"solely dedicated to providing immediate and lifesaving educational, emotional,
and financial support to families, medical professionals and other caregivers before,
during and after a pregnancies diagnosed with twin to twin transfusion syndrome."
- Web Site: www.twin2twin.org
- Web Site: Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati - TTTS
- www.kangaroomothercare.com
Excellent reasons to "wear your baby." Help your baby rest, grow and
development with this all important skin-to-skin contact. Dad/Partner
can participate too.
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What is Low Birth Weight?
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