South Community
Birth Program

Resources

These are all the resources provided by SCBP during your pregnancy whether you’re in group care or individual care. Please read all the handouts to help you make decisions about your care.

Helpful info for beginning to middle of pregnancy

  1. Step-by-Step Guide to Pregnancy
  2. Baby's Best Chance: Parents' Handbook of Pregnancy and Baby Care
  3. Healthiest Babies Possible
  4. Fetal development timeline
  5. Fetal development: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

Helpful info for last trimester/delivery and postpartum

  1. Pain Relief in Labour
  2. The BrightStart Bundle at BC Women's Hospital
  3. Importance of Skin to Skin Contact
  4. Bed Sharing With your Baby
  5. Crying Baby
  6. Pregnancy & Parenting | Healthy Families BC
  7. Immunization

SCBP Handouts

Welcome to SCBP

  1. Welcome to SCBP - About our Program
  2. Is It Safe for My Baby

CP1 - Nutrition in pregnancy

  1. Iron-deficiency Anemia
  2. Food Sources of Calcium and Vitamin D
  3. Pregnancy and Dental Health
  4. Exercise in Pregnancy
  5. Fibre and Your Health
  6. Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects
  7. Food Safety During Pregnancy
  8. Healthy Eating for Pregnancy
  9. Guidelines for Eating Fish With Higher Mercury Content
  10. Personal Goals for a Health Pregnancy - quiz
  11. Preventing & Treating Gestational Diabetes
  12. Reducing Risk of Food Allergy in Your Baby
  13. Sources of Iron
  14. Coping with Morning Sickness

CP2 - Exercise & common discomforts

  1. Abdominal Muscles
  2. Exercise basics
  3. Itching in Pregnancy
  4. Nausea in Pregnancy
  5. Progressive Relaxation (Cool Down)

CP3 - Relaxation for birth

  1. Breathe to Relax
  2. Comfort in Labour
  3. Contractions During Pregnancy
  4. The 3 R's in Childbirth Preparation
  5. Meditation for Pregnancy
  6. Audio Healing Meditation for Pregnancy
  7. Audio Loving Kindness Meditation for Pregnancy
  8. Audio Mindful Awareness Meditation for Pregnancy
  9. Audio Relaxing Body Meditation for Pregnancy

CP4 - Labour support

  1. Food & Drink in Labour
  2. Hints for Labour and Birth
  3. Water Birth Handout, for those interested
  4. What is a Doula
  5. When Labour Starts
  6. Your Feelings about Pain Medication
  7. Doula Request Form

CP5 - Labour & birth

  1. Perineal Massage in Pregnancy
  2. Backache in Labour
  3. Electronic Fetal Heart Monitoring
  4. Movement in Labour
  5. SAS – Decisions for the birth & after
  6. Session 6 - BCWH Info Fentanyl
  7. The Tough Times of Labour
  8. Going Past your Due Date - Postdates Pregnancy
  9. Epidurals in Labour
  10. Pain Relief in Labour

CP6 - Cesarean & VBAC

  1. Ideas for the Best Cesarean Possible
  2. Birth After Cesarean
  3. Cesarean Section Overview
  4. Vaginal Birth After Cesarean

CP7 - Breastfeeding

  1. Breast Engorgement
  2. Breastfeeding Your Baby
  3. Cleaning Equipment, and the Storage and Transport of Mother's Milk
  4. Helpful Hints for Keeping up Milk Supply
  5. Keeping Track of When My Baby Feeds, A Baby Feeding Log
  6. Resource - Mastitis
  7. SAS - Thinking about breastfeeding and parenting
  8. Signs Breastfeeding is Going Well