Family First Midwifery Chilliwack

07/01/2024

For far too long we’ve been taught to push down our challenging feelings, suppress them, compartmentalize them, ignore them, “be strong” and pretend like they don’t affect us. Yet we are now faced the biggest mental health pandemic we’ve ever known!
Processing emotions is one of the biggest ways to prevent mental health disorders. PPD, PPA, PPP… Learn to process the good and the challenging emotions and then give this gift to our children by modeling it for them.
One of the life changing books for me as a parent: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John & Julie Gottman. I highly recommend it to all parents.
These steps for processing emotions from Self Healers Circle are a place to start.
Share your tips in the comments about how you process emotions and ways you’ve taught your littles to process emotions. Learning from each others is the best way to grow as parents. 💕

02/17/2024

Got milk?
URGENT call out from BC Women’s Milk Bank!!! They are absolutely dried up for milk in the very near future! Down to 50% of normal capacity- this is bad news for very sick babies and will mean no access for community babies.
Apparently community hospital sites consume 2X as much milk as their donation volumes.
PLEASE!! Please consider filling out forms to donate. They are desperate. They NEED this human milk ASAP!!
http://www.bcwomens.ca/our-services/labour-birth-post-birth-care/milk-bank/donating-milk

06/02/2023

Abundant momma is doing it again!

June 17th everyone!! Enjoy an amazing full body workout, some delicious pre/post wellness drinks and some incredible community connection. ❤️

What more could you want on a beautiful Saturday morning in June? Take the time for yourself, make yourself a priority, make your health a priority and come have some fun!
All for only $15!!

You can sign up two ways:
1. Head to the link in her bio .mama
2. Send an e-transfer to andreagali90@hotmail.com

If you have any questions, feel free to DM .mama

She will be happy to answer your questions!

05/06/2023

When things get hard for you, or your loved ones, what ways do you connect & process difficult events with those close to you?
Share your tried and true, go-to tools in the comments. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Let’s share and support each other.

04/23/2023

The Body Keeps the Score.
~Bessel Van Der Kolk
If you’ve ever wondered what all this chatter about trauma, complex trauma and complex PTSD is all about, pick up this book and do a little bit of rabbit hole diving. Our bodies truly remember what our minds sometimes can’t. Knowing this is so empowering and can facilitate healing.

04/23/2023

Trauma can result from many experiences in our lives, bury itself deep in our bodies and manifest it in unsuspecting ways for years to come.
While having a trusted care provider during pregnancy and birth can help to reduce the chances of a traumatic experience, it doesn’t guarantee it. A therapist skilled in trauma recovery is an excellent source and always recommended.
Here are a few tips on how to start the journey of healing from a somatic perspective.
What tools have you used to start on your path to wholeness and build capacity? If you feel safe enough to be vulnerable and share your top 3-5, please comment below so we can all grow. If you don’t feel ready for that, then enjoy the tips and the comments. Let’s be a village for each other. ❤️

04/23/2023

Becoming a parent may be the most challenging experience of your life… Preparing for it is essential. One of the many ways to prepare, is to learn to regulate your emotions so that you can teach your little ones to regulate theirs. Here are a few quick tips with some neuroscience to explain why they work. Let’s be our village; tell us what methods you have found helpful in regulating your emotions.

04/22/2023

Help them learn to regulate their emotions by modeling emotional regulation. Tune into them so they can tune into you and together you can weather the emotional storms safely. What things do you do the help your little ones regulate their big and sometimes scary emotions? Leave us a comment. .

04/22/2023

04/22/2023

How can we help our little ones learn to manage those big emotions when they hit? Emotion coach them. Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John and Julie Gottman is one of my favourite parenting books. Teaching our littles to understand and connect with what they are feeling and then showing them how to process and manage those feelings is as essential as learning to tie your shoes. We can model that behavior and we can help them learn it step by step by being their super-hero coaches in emotions. ❤️

04/22/2023

Help them fill their cups. ❤️

04/22/2023

Pregnancy is a time to learning to trust your momma gut with the support of a care provider that shares knowledge and trusts you to make safe decisions for you and your child that align with your individual values. This can build a foundation of a parent who feels confident in gleaning knowledge, sharing knowledge and making the tough decisions for the next 18 years that let them sleep at night.