The Best Start Resource Centre: Ontario’s Maternal Newborn and Early Child Development Resource Centre is a key program of Health Nexus, a bilingual health promotion
Month: February 2015
Harm Reduction and Pregnancy: Community-based Approaches to Prenatal Substance Use in Western Canada
Originally posted on Girls, Women, Alcohol, and Pregnancy:
This 16-page booklet provides a short introduction to harm reduction approaches during pregnancy. Harm Reduction refers to…
Healthy You, Healthy Baby
Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy Eat a well-balanced diet following Canada’s food guide. Take a prenatal vitamin containing 0.4 – 1.0mg of folic acid for 3 months
FASD Awareness Campaigns, Women and Alcohol
Public awareness raising campaigns targeting alcohol use during pregnancy are an important part of preventing prenatal alcohol exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Despite this,
Midwives’ knowledge, attitudes and practice about alcohol
Midwives are an influential profession and a key group in informing women about alcohol consumption in pregnancy and its consequences. There are no current quantitative
Too Young To Drink: FASD
Launched on September 9th 2014, on the occasion of the International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day, TooYoungToDrink is a communication campaign to raise awareness of
