Resources for Women, Babies and Families
Services
Family Connections Centre
The Family Connections Centre in Canmore offers free programs, workshops and courses in the Bow Valley focusing on social connections, social/emotional development, mental health skills and more. Find out about their programs here.
Bow Valley Lactation Consultant
Available through the Primary Care Network.
Mini Milestones
Mini Milestones is a 6-week program for parents with infants ages 0 – 9 months. Register through the Canmore Recreation Centre website.
Women’s Hub
Browse the resources for women and girls developed by the Government of Alberta: Women’s Hub.
Educational videos
Pelvic Floor Clinic Resources
Alberta Health Services
Click on the link below to access handouts, educational workshops and physiotherapy educational videos from
the Pelvic Floor Clinic (AHS), Calgary Foothills Medical Centre.
If you are new with pelvic floor exercises, watch the physiotherapy educational modules:
“Understanding your pelvic floor”
If you are post natal, watch:
Find more related resources here:
Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Webinars
AHS is also conducting free Pelvic Health Physiotherapy webinars, with dates updated quarterly. Two topics are currently covered. Register through the links for After Your Baby and Female Urinary Incontinence.
These are accessible for free for people with AHS numbers.
Infant Headshape Program Educational Video
Alberta Health Services-Children’s hospital
Access the link to their educational video here.
The Calgary Children’s Hospital does not have a head shape clinic anymore. All their information is online. Infants with a plagiocephaly that needs care should see a pediatrician. Edmonton still has a publicly funded head-shape clinic.
Torticollis, Plagiocephaly, (flat head syndrome) educational video
From Milestones Physical Therapy Services
Are you worried your baby’s head has a flat area on it? Have you noticed they always prefer to look or sleep with their head in one direction, or keep their head tilted to one side? This video series will teach you what to watch for in regards to plagiocephaly and torticollis, provide tips on how to start correcting the flat area using counterpressure, and offer suggestions on how to make tummy time easier. Chapter 2 in this series describes torticollis, which is a neck muscle imbalance commonly seen in babies, and explains the impact this condition has on head shape. Lori Walker Krause, BSc.P.T., MCPA is a registered physiotherapist with over 17 years of experience treating infants with plagiocephaly, torticollis and a wide variety of developmental delays. Full bio is available here: https://lakeviewphysio.ca/team/lori-walker-krause.
Janine Mak, offers this service right here in Canmore at Inspire Physiotherapy & Osteopathy. Janine worked at a pediatric clinic in Calgary for over 10 years and is a former colleague of Lori Walker Krause.
Anne-Marie Fafard offers manual osteopathy therapy for babies and mothers which is beneficial to treat breastfeeding challenges. For example, if baby has difficulty breastfeeding on one side, this can be due to his/her decreased ability to rotate his/her head and open his/her mouth wide enough, but it can also be due to the mother’s milk not flowing as well on that side due to restrictions or past injuries to her lung or ribs on that side, or a little bit of both.
Please contact at info@INSPIREcanmore.com for more information or to book an appointment.