Exploring Yellowknife Walking Trails
This is a detailed map of the city’s recreation facilities, parks, playgrounds, trails, and public-use spaces, helpful if you’re looking for family-friendly places to play, walk, or explore. A useful resource for parents who want to plan outings with kids or explore local green spaces.
Explore Yellowknife Public Playgrounds
This page is a guide to Yellowknife’s public parks and outdoor green spaces. A useful resource for parents who want to plan outings with kids or explore local green spaces.
Caring for a Crying Baby
This resource offers practical advice and coping strategies for parents dealing with a crying baby. It includes ways to soothe the baby, ways to calm yourself, and support guidance.
Aunties on the Road
Aunties on the Road is an Indigenous full-spectrum doula collective that supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth through all stages of reproductive and sexual health. Based in the Ottawa region, they offer culturally grounded care including birth support, postpartum care, loss support, and reproductive health education.
AMAZE Sexual Health Platform
AMAZE is a free, online sexual‑health education platform that provides age-appropriate, medically accurate, and inclusive information for young adolescents. Through short, animated videos, it covers topics like puberty, menstruation, reproduction, consent, healthy relationships, and personal safety. AMAZE also offers resources for parents, caregivers, and educators to support open and honest conversations about growing up, ensuring that young people have access to reliable information no matter where they live or go to school.
Vitamin K Shot
This resource from Dr. Sara Wickham provides evidence-based information on vitamin K for newborns, helping parents understand why it is offered, the risks of vitamin K deficiency bleeding, and the options for administration (injection or oral). It outlines the benefits, safety considerations, and alternatives.
Mile’s Circuit
This page provides a step-by-step guide for pregnant people to help their baby move into an optimal position for birth.
Yellowknife Health Resources
This document is a directory of Health and Wellbeing Resources, listing various practitioners, clinics, and programs available in Yellowknife.
Healthy Family Program
This pamphlet promotes the Healthy Family Program, a territorial program in the Northwest Territories, designed to support and enhance the development of children under the age of 5. The program provides support and information on parenting to expectant parents and families with young children.
Working With Nurses
This document is written for nurses to help them understand the role of a professional doula in a hospital setting.
Growing Up Healthy
A resource booklet for First Nations and Métis parents in BC concerning the health and well-being of children. Topics include traditional foods, healthy eating on a budget, and general family wellness. It offers guidance on physical health, eye and dental health, safety, sleeping, and activity for children, with age-specific information from pregnancy to 6 years.
Fatherhood is Forever
A resource booklet for First Nations and Métis parents in BC that focuses on the importance of fathering. It provides information on how to be an involved father, different approaches for varying family situations (e.g., single fathers, separated fathers), and encourages healing as a step toward better fathering. Key topics include family traditions and playtime.
Family Connections
A resource booklet that covers the importance of connections with family and community. The booklet offers age-specific guidance from pregnancy up to 6 years of age.
Vaccines and Pregnancy
This document addresses Vaccines in Pregnancy, explaining why expectant parents should get vaccinated and what they need to know. It details how pregnancy affects the immune system, making one more susceptible to severe infection. The resource specifically lists recommended vaccines to get before pregnancy (Varicella, MMR) and those recommended during pregnancy to protect both parent and baby from diseases like Pertussis (whooping cough) and Influenza (flu).
Pregnancy and Substance Use
This document is a Harm Reduction Toolkit for Pregnancy and Substance Use. It provides detailed, evidence-based harm reduction information for various substances, including alcohol, benzodiazepines, cannabis, opioids, stimulants, and tobacco/nicotine. The resource also guides individuals on navigating prenatal care, labor, childbirth, and the postpartum period while emphasizing the right to quality perinatal care.
Perineal Stretching
This infographic explains the purpose and technique of perineal stretching, also known as perineal massage. It explains that the practice helps prepare the vaginal opening for the stretching sensation during crowning, listing when to start, how often, and the 3-direction technique for performing the massage.
Hospital Bag(s) List
This document is a detailed Hospital Bag List for parents preparing for labour and birth. The list is separated into sections for Labour and Recovery, covering items for the Birthing Parent, the Baby, and additional comfort/personal items. It includes practical suggestions for clothing, hygiene, snacks, and important documents like the Birth Preference Sheet.
Birth Travel Checklist
This resource provides a practical checklist for preparing and packing a hospital bag in preparation for travelling to give birth.
Birth Preferences Sheet
This document is a customizable Birth Preference Sheet (often called a birth plan). It is structured as a checklist and write-in form to help parents communicate their wishes regarding induction methods, pain relief options (both pharmacological and non-pharmacological), birthing positions, delivery of the baby and placenta, and immediate newborn care. The sheet emphasizes the right to informed choice during the medical process.
Born on the Land With Helping Hands
This resource helps mothers prepare for the baby's arrival, offering guidance rooted in Inuit women's midwifery practices and cultural wisdom.