Welcome to our prenatal information section!
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Having a healthy pregnancy

• How do I find out when my baby is due? Click Pregnancy Calculator
• I want to find out what a midwife can do for me and how can I contact one?
  Click this link
• What kind of exercise do I need during pregnancy? Click Healthy Activity
• What do I need to eat while I'm pregnant? Click Pregnancy and food
• What do I need to know about taking drugs and alcohol during my pregnancy?
  • Click this link
  • Click Drugs, Alcohol & Pregnancy
• Do I need to get the Chicken Pox vaccine? Click this link
• What do I need to know about Group B Streptococcus? Click this link

Preterm Labour

• What is preterm labour and how do I know I'm having it? Click this link

Planning for Infant Feeding

• I am planning to breast feed and want to read more about it. What is a good source?
  Click Breastfeeding Basics

How Your Baby Grows in the Uterus

• I want to see how my baby grows each month, where can I find this information?
  Click this link

Some Discomforts of Pregnancy

• What are some of the discomforts I might have during my pregnancy?
  Click this link

Some Terms You Might Hear During Your Pregnancy

• What are some terms that I might hear during my pregnancy and what do they mean?
  Click this link

Delivering at the IWK

• If I need to go to the IWK to deliver my baby, what do I do when I get there?
  Click this link

Getting Ready for Baby

• I want to use cloth diapers, how do I make them?
  • Click for instructions
  • Click for free pattern
• How can my partner and I start getting ready for parenting? Click this link
• I am planning to breast feed what should I do to get ready? Click this link

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