websites & Information Booklets 

General Resources on Pregnancy & Parenting:

• Penticton Maternity Care - meet the different providers caring for pregnant women in our community

• Pregnancy Info - from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada

• Childbirth and Parenting Cartoon, from the New York Times

• (Public Health Agency of Canada)

• Baby's Best Chance: Parent's Handbook of Pregnancy & Baby Care (Healthy Families BC)

• Pregnancy Passport

• Ultrasound in Pregnancy (SOGC)

• Medications & Drugs during Pregnancy

• Working During Pregnancy (SOGC)

• Normal Labour & Delivery (SOGC)

• Cesarean Section (SOGC)

• Nausea & Vomiting in Pregnancy (SOGC)

• Folic Acid Supplementation (SOGC)

• Group B Streptococcus (SOGC)

• HIV Testing in Pregnancy (SOGC)

• Zika Virus (Health Canada)

• HUGS

COVID

• BC Centre for Disease Control - Pregnancy, Breastfeeding & Covid-19 Vaccination Resources

• Covid-19 Vaccination Decision Making Tool - Provincial Council for Maternal & Child Health (Ontario)

• Covid-19 Vaccine in Pregnancy & Breastfeeding: InfantRisk Centre

• American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology Statement on Covid-19 Vaccination for Pregnant and Lactating Women

• Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists of Canada Statement on Covid-19 Vaccination

• Society for Maternal & Fetal Medicine

• National Advisory Council on Immunization (NACI)

• CDC

• Covid Vaccine Decision Making Tool (English)

Nutrition in Pregnancy

• Canada's Food Guides

• Eat Safely, Eat Well

• Nutrition During Pregnancy (ACOG)

• Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy

• Twins & Triplets (SOGC)

• Prenatal Nutrition - Health Canada

• CDC - Pregnancy & Food Safety

• Health Link BC - Healthy Eating for Women with Gestational Diabetes

• HealthLink BC - Healthy Eating for Pregnant Women

Options for Delivery After Ceserean Section

• Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section & Planned Repeat Cesarean Section (Best Birth Clinic)

• Options for birth after cesarean section

• VBAC (SOGC)

• When Labour Starts

• Preterm Labour (SOGC)

Prenatal Screening

• Video: Options for genetic screening in BC

• Decision Making Tool for Genetic Screening (Perinatal Services BC)

• Genetics Education Canada

• Screen Positive: What does it mean, and what do I do know?

• Understanding Prenatal Screening: A Visual Guide

• Prenatal Screening (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario)

• Prenatal Screening (SOGC)

• Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn (Rh disease)

• Prenatal Screening (BC)

• Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing

  • Harmony

  • Panorama (not currently available in the Okanagan!)

• Paternity Testing Orchid Cellmark ProDNA

Referral Services at BC Women's Hospital

• Fetal Diagnosis Service (FDS)

• Medical Genetics

RECOVERING FROM PREGNANCY LOSS

• Pregnancy and infant loss network (Sunnybrook Hospital)

• Lumara

• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

• Glow in the Woods

community resources for pregnancy

• Interior Health - Community Health Services - click here for links to diabetes education, breastfeeding, well baby care, prenatal classes and more!

• Having a Baby (Interior Health)

• Healthy from the Start

• Healthy Families BC

• QuitNow! Smoking Cessation

Health Link BC

• High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy

• Preeclampsia

• Cesarean Section

• Prematurity

• Preterm Labour

Breastfeeding

• Canadian Breastfeeding Foundation

• Dr. Jack Newman's Breastfeeding Website

• La Leche

CORD BLOOD BANKING

• Insception Lifebank

• Healthcord Cryogenics

Post Partum Depression & support for Mom

• Pacific Post Partum Support Group

• BC Women's Hospital

• Vancouver Coastal Health

• Here to Help

• Postpartum Depression (Canadian Mental Health Association)

• Blossoming Mother - online support and counselling for pregnant women & new moms

• Postpartum Progress

UNPLANNED PREGNANCY

• OPT BC

Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC)

Optimal Birth BC 

Power to Push

Motherrisk

PUSH - Pregnancy & Understanding Your Sexual Health (Queen's University)

National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

SOS Morning Sickness

International Association of Birth Photographers 2017 Winning Photos - check out these images that really capture the moment!