March 11, 2026

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Mental Health During Pregnancy and the Postpartum     Recorded presentation click HERE

This webinar addresses perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), common yet often underrecognized mental health conditions during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Dr. Standeven reviewed prevalence, screening strategies, and evolving safety data on antidepressant use, while dispelling common myths and emphasizing timely, evidence-based care to improve outcomes for both mother and infant. A live Q&A followed, offering practical guidance for clinical practice.

Job Posting

The Clinical Educator posting is open for applications until March 20.

Its Safe Sleep WEEK!  (who knew this was a thing?!)

I wanted to remind you of a resource that is on the iphones that has a harm reduction lens.  Its from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine about safe bed sharing.  This resource is on the iphones & is available in multiple languages.

 https://www.bfmed.org/parent-practitioner-handouts 

One of the staff from HMHB told me that 2 clients had friends tell them that H&H 'inspects' the sleeping area when they do home visits.  I thought this was a good opportunity to remind us of the language we use when we do client education.  I am confident that its not our intention to 'inspect', but to teach. Unfortunately, if this is how its perceived, it doesn't matter as much what our intention is.  Please be mindful of this, as we are aware that our population is VERY sensitive!! 

Here's some more information that was sent out by Saskatchewan Prevention Institute

Providing evidence-based information about safe sleep practices to parents and caregivers continues to be important because preventable sleep-related infant injuries and deaths are still being reported across Canada. Building awareness of safe sleep practices helps people to recognize the risks involved in unsafe sleep environments. Whether you’re a parent or guardian, grandparent, babysitter, sibling, caregiver, or daycare provider, you play an essential role in creating and maintaining safe sleep environments for the babies you care for. To learn more about Safe Sleep Week and key messages for this year’s campaign, please visit https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/campaigns/safe-sleep-week.html.

Below is a list of evidence-based resources on safe sleep practices that may be useful.

• Infant Safe Sleep Tips for Grandparents fact sheet (Health Canada, 2025)
• Cribs, Cradles, and Bassinets fact sheet (Health Canada, 2024)
• Safe Sleep on the Go fact sheet (Health Canada, 2024)
• Dressing Your Baby for Sleep fact sheet (Health Canada, 2024)
• Safe Sleep for Your Baby: Lower the Risk of SIDS brochure (SPI, 2019)

Below are some Indigenous-specific resources on safe sleep practices for infants.

• Safe Sleep for Your Baby poster (Health Canada, 2025)
• Safe Sleep – Children are Gifts from the Creator video (First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba, Strengthening Families Maternal Child Health, 2024)
• Baby’s Safe Sleep Environment poster (Government of Nunavut)
• Honouring our Babies Safer Sleep Toolkit: Facilitators Guide and Safer Sleep Cards (Perinatal Services BC, 2023)

A new resource from Health Canada that was released in February 2026 Safe sleep image guidance is a practical tool created to help educators, service providers, and organizations with their communications and outreach efforts on safe infant sleep practices. This tool was designed to support identification of images that accurately represent safe sleep environments and practices. Images play a powerful role in shaping public understanding, and even small details can unintentionally convey or reinforce unsafe messages. This resource provides clear examples of images that do and do not reflect safe sleep practices as well as key considerations when selecting photos for print, digital, and social media use.  By consistently using safe imagery, we can collectively reinforce safe sleep messaging to help reduce confusion for families and caregivers. To learn more about “Safe sleep image guidance”, please visit https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/safe-sleep/image-guide.html.