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Community, education, and tools for birth workers. Learn from professional doulas working in todays birth world.

Often imitated, never duplicated, Doula Essentials provides un-matched support and opportunities during and after your training. Welcome to the newest training to hit Calgary that provides ALL your in classroom learning to begin supporting new families and continuing education to grow as a doula.

11/03/2026

🚨🚨🚨 In a landmark case, an Australian woman is awareded $275,000 in negligence case after she was coerced into an exam during labor.

The woman's birth plan stated she only consented to exams as medically necessary. However, when she arrived at triage in labor, she was refused admission, care, and any pain management unless she consented to an exam.

Many people experience medical coercion and it's an uncomfortable and often traumatic experience. However, when one is IN labor, navigating one of the most vulnerable experiences of their lives, the lack of autonomy and control makes forced exams potentially life altering.

The supreme court of Victoria, ruled the forced exam to be battery, assault, and medical negligence. By not providing care unless a one allows an exam is coercion by withholding care.

This landmark case has the potential to change maternity care, something many can't wait to see happen.

Everyone deserves informed CONSENT, autonomy, and rights - being in labor does not negate the right to consent and autonomy.

Do you think this case will impact maternity care in AUS? Does it have the potential to impact maternity care globally?

Consent always matters, labor or not.

11/01/2026

🎃 This is literally amazing 🎃

11/01/2026

10/17/2026

The NW does not mess around when it comes to sunsets! What a night

10/16/2026

Well done BC

: The BC NDP has unveiled a plan to fund Canada’s first perinatal mental health unit, at BC Women’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Today, a mom who becomes acutely unwell after giving birth is admitted to a general psychiatric ward away from her baby, or goes without inpatient care. One in four women experiences a mental health challenge during pregnancy or after birth.

The plan would:

: The BC NDP has unveiled a plan to fund Canada’s first perinatal mental health unit, at BC Women’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Today, a mom who becomes acutely unwell after giving birth is admitted to a general psychiatric ward away from her baby, or goes without inpatient care. One in four women experiences a mental health challenge during pregnancy or after birth.

The plan would:

1. Open an eight-room unit with a nursery, so moms can stay with their babies while they get care, as early as fall 2028

2. Cover menopause treatments through PharmaCare for breast cancer survivors who can’t use hormone therapy

3, Make it faster and easier for postmenopausal women to get vaginal estrogen through their pharmacist

4. Launch a province-wide women’s health strategy to cut diagnostic and treatment delays

The plan builds on the BC NDP’s record of connecting a million more people to a family doctor and giving B.C. the most doctors per person in Canada.

Meanwhile, BC Conservative candidates have pushed for private, pay-for-care health care. Health critic Anna Kindy said “some people will want to pay” for care, adding “that’s great, right?” Another BC Conservative candidate, Mark MacDonald, has called private health care “the only solution.”

10/02/2026

This is important

Body safety starts before any talk about danger. It starts with whether a child's "no" counts at home, with the adults they trust most. Some grown-ups take offense when a child skips the hug. Their feelings matter less than what the child is learning.

Learn ways to practice what to say at home: http://familiesfirstcenter.org/article/body-safety-for-kids/

09/24/2026

Beautiful

Out on the dry grasslands and desert margins of Mongolia, a herding family's survival can hinge on whether a mother camel accepts her calf. When she rejects it, refusing to let it nurse, the newborn's chances drop fast. No amount of pushing the two together tends to change her mind.

So the herders turn to a ritual that treats the problem as emotional rather than mechanical. A singer sits close to the agitated mother and begins a slow, repetitive chant, often joined by the deep drone of a horse-head fiddle. That two-stringed instrument anchors so much Mongolian music, and the performer watches the animal closely, bending the melody to her changing mood.

The session can stretch on for a long while, the music circling and softening as the camel's resistance wears down. Herders describe the mother gradually calming under the sound and standing quieter. They say that at the crucial moment she sometimes sheds tears before lowering her guard and letting the calf reach the milk it needs.

The ritual, known as the coaxing ceremony, was captured on film in The Story of the Weeping Camel and inscribed by UNESCO in 2015 as heritage worth protecting. In a part of the world where people and animals depend on each other completely, the tool that saves a calf's life turns out to be a song.

09/18/2026

We didn’t win, but we didn’t get mastitis!’ 🍼

Honestly, give Taylor Cox the award for most iconic red carpet accessory. The writer and mum-of-two turned up to the Emmys in an orange dress (complete with a bedazzled breast pump) and made postpartum practicality look seriously glam.

09/14/2026

09/11/2026

"We expect better from the Edmonton Oilers."

"As a sexual assault survivor and longtime Oilers supporter known as Mama Stanley, I cannot support or cheer for this team while Formenton remains an Oiler."

A Change.org petition started by Mary Loewen, known to fans as Mama Stanley, is calling on the Edmonton Oilers to reverse the signing of Alex Formenton. Formenton was one of five players charged in connection with a 2018 sexual assault allegation involving members of Canada's world junior hockey team. All five were acquitted in July 2025.

"This is not about abandoning the other players we have loved and supported," she says. "It is about holding the organization responsible for a decision it willingly made."

Should the Oilers reverse their decision? If you agree, sign the petition: https://vist.ly/5hzsp

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