Breastfeeding Support & Safe Feeding Education

Breastfeeding offers many health and emotional benefits to mothers and their babies.

Birth Helpers can assist families in establishing breastfeeding and provide ongoing support to meet breastfeeding goals.
- Wiiji'idiwag Ikwewag Birth Helpers

Breastfeeding Support & Safe Feeding Education

Birth Helpers will provide information on feeding to expectant families so they may determine what works best for them.

After baby is born, Birth Helpers can assist when feeding challenges arise.

Indigenous Birth Helpers

Are you pregnant and interested in support from a birth helper? We want to empower families and connect them to their Indigenous language, culture and identity throughout the journey of pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beyond.

Employment Opportunity: Indigenous Birth Helper - Thompson

Birth Helpers work towards reclaiming Indigenous birth and parenting practices for a diverse range of families and communities. Multiple positions are currently available.

Indigenous Birth Helper Information poster

Are you pregnant and interested in support from a birth helper? Indigenous Birth Helpers are available to provide emotional, physical, spiritual, and cultural support for individuals and families before, during and after childbirth.

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We welcome you to contact us for information about our work and how we might be able to help you.