Pregnancy and delivery
This section provides details about:
- Services available before, during and after pregnancy
- Giving birth in a hospital: at the Gatineau Hospital, as well as at the Pontiac Hospital Centre
Information kit on pregnancy
Pregnancy
- Facts on pregnancy and childbirth from Canada's experts
- Ste-Justine Pregnancy and breastfeeding pocket guide
- Trisomy 21 prenatal screening program pamphlet
- Nausea and vomiting
- Safe working conditions for a safe maternity
- Active for two : Physical activity during and after pregnancy
- Healthy weight gain during pregnancy
- Prenatal nutrition
- Healthy eating during pregnancy
- Domestic violence
- Medications and other substances during pregnancy and breasfeeding
- Preventing premature labour
- Preparing for labour and delivery
- Epidural information
- Québec.ca/magrossesse
Breastfeeding and post-partum
- Contraception methods booklet
- Blood and urine screening in the newborn baby
- Cannabis, pregnancy and breastfeeding
- 10 good reasons to breasfeed your baby
- 10 valuable tips for successful breasfeeding
- Multiple videoclips on breasfeeding
- Dr Newman's breasfeeding clinic - information sheets
- Dr Newman's breastfeeding clinic - videos
- Breastfeeding: Learn it and start early!
- Guidebook - Choosing how to feed my baby
- My wish to breastfeed
- My plan to feed my baby
Young children
- Practical guide for parents from pregnancy to age two
- Caring for kids information
- Information about health care services for children from birth through their 18th birthday (CHEO)
- A parent's guide to vaccination
- Magazine « Naître et grandir » (in French only)