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Mother Nurture Birth Services

Southern Alberta’s premier service for expecting families. Offering Lamaze Childbirth Education & Birth Doula Services.

Vicki Todd has been a Registered Massage Therapist practicing in Lethbridge, Alberta for 16 years. She is registered with the Natural Health Practitioners of Canada and has all requirements to bill to your insurance providers. Although massage therapy is her first love, she is also a Certified Birth Doula with Doulas of North America. Vicki loves helping families during thier birth journey, whatever that is for them. While Vicki chose to have home births-knowing that this isn't for everyone, she has supported women who have chosen hospital births, medicated births and planned cesarean section. Vicki is also a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and teaches expecting parents in small group settings and privately as well.

10/22/2025

Recently, I’ve been having all sorts of conversations about letting go.

Certainly, it’s not an uncommon thing to be told that surrender and letting go are required for birth, but that’s easier said than done.

If you are someone who has watched birth videos in preparation for your own birth, it may have caused worry at the sight of someone “losing control.” But that isn’t what is happening.

What comes with surrender is an ability to cope with the waves and intensity of labour.

The other part is when folks force it when their bodies aren’t telling them they need it. Vocalizing through rather than allowing their voice to groan as a primal urge.

Labour is most certainly a time to be IN your body.

The beautiful part about it is that in that specific circumstance, it is a private moment if you want it to be. While some folks do share their births publicly, it’s okay to keep It private.

You are the only one who will cope through birth the way you do-quietly or roaring through each wave.

09/23/2025

When birth plans change, we don’t go away. Here to wipe tears, give hugs and rub your feet while you wait to go into the OR.

And if you want charcuterie, you get the damn charcuterie-you deserve it.

09/11/2025

This is a true conversation that happened. And I was present.

17 years ago, a friend of mine was newly married and expecting their first baby. They were visiting from out of town and a few friends had gone out for lunch at a local pub.

While it was still early in her pregnancy, conversation quickly came to how they were feeling about giving birth, when her (then) husband (who was quite a bit older than she was) piped up and said-“it’s so stupid. I don’t poop when I pee!”

A few of us turned to him in disbelief and awkward laughter when his friend looked at him and said the words in the post above, “Dude. There’s three holes.”

I swear, you could see his brain exploding a little.

And that’s when I found myself teaching an anatomy/biology lesson to a 30 year old man in a pub on a Sunday afternoon.

And I’ve had this conversation many times in my 20 year career.

So, here’s the thing. As our kids get older and the questions come, now we have to jump hoops for them to learn these basic anatomy lessons. And I get it. It’s an awkward conversation-but could it be that it’s awkward because *our parents made it awkward?

I promise that teaching your kids anatomy won’t make them promiscuous. It will lesson their curiosity if they have a safe space to ask questions.

So this year, when the consent form comes home and you’re asked to “opt in” to sexual health education-please do it. Otherwise you don’t know where they’ll be learning it from.

And while we’re at it they aren’t learning it from banned books in the library.

09/10/2025

Birth story time;

This story came to me after we chatted about having doulas in the OR.

I’m thankful to this family for sharing their story.

Birth with my second child - I was told that she was measuring quite large - 97th percentile I believe. So, I was going into an induction prepared to be pushing out a big baby. I had given birth once, I could do it again. I was induced with my first so I knew what the drill would be. This time, I was given oxytocin to get contractions going. Everything felt as it should at the beginning - it wasn’t too bad. I had my husband there making me laugh and supporting me, the nursing staff were incredible.
Towards the evening that day, things started to ramp up. I was doing my best to breathe through, but I opted for an epidural.
This is where things kind of went sideways. I could still feel a ton of pain overnight, even with the epidural...
And every time I had a check, baby girl wasn’t engaging into my pelvis. At some point over night, every time I laid on one side, she would decel and the pain was unreal. I absolutely knew something wasn’t right. I told my husband that I think I’m going To need a c section. But the doctors were pretty positive she would come, so I waited. It didn’t get better.
I think I knew way before any of this that she wasn’t coming vaginally. But, I still listened to the doctors and let them try forceps. At that point, I was in an incredible amount of pain so the anaesthesiologist gave me extra good drugs and numbed me pretty good. After trying three times with the forceps, I began to bleed and it was an emergency C-section.
My husband couldn’t come as I was rushed off. I was very out of it, had pain in my shoulders and was shaking so they gave me a sedative. I woke up to my husband and baby not there - rushed to NICU. More transpired after that, and she’s now a healthy almost 5 month old.

All this is to say - trust your gut. You know your body. I also desperately wish I could have had someone else there to advocate for me who wasn’t so scared like my husband and I were.”

08/27/2025

I want to clear something up.

While inductions aren’t always ideal (and *sometimes seem un-necessary) they can be important procedures in some high risk pregnancy situations.

It isn’t unusual that when I have clients who have been recommended induction, that they feel defeated before they even get started. That what they’ve heard about induction from *some people is inevitable.

What do they think?

That if they have to be induced, they’ll need an epidural.
And then it’s likely they’ll need a cesarean birth.

Neither of which they had hoped for.

What’s true?
You don’t know how you will respond until you are in it.

Inductions are meant to go slow and steady, and depending on the method used *can feel intense.
Are the contractions worse because of induction?
Not likely (although pain is subjective) but they *can tend to come on fast and furious, rather than a gentle ease in like what might happen if you went into spontaneous labour.

Will you have to have a cesarean birth?
Maybe. Caesarean birth is a possibility in all births.
Why does induction increase your risk?
Trying to induce something that isn’t ready (body and baby) might mean that it doesn’t work. Your body just might not progress in labour. Your baby may not like the contractions.

What I always tell my clients, induction or not when they get anxious about these possibilities (not probabilities) in labour, is not to get ahead of themselves.

Take it each step at a time. You never know how you will respond until you are in it. When there is a change in the plan, give yourself grace to allow yourself to change your mind.

Inductions, while not always ideal do not always mean epidurals and they don’t always end in cesarean birth.

Your birth is your own. You write the story

08/19/2025

2020 seems, in some ways so long ago.

For folks who became parents in the early months, there wasn’t much different about your entry into parenthood. It was likely you had baby showers and things at hospital weren’t any different than you’d imagined.

But just a few months later, the world was tipped off its axis and we all learned about living in a pandemic.

For new parents at this time, it created a heightened anxiety, concern and isolation no one could have ever predicted.

Babies being introduced to family and friends through windows and doors, drive by baby showers, online lactation appointments and everyone around in masks.

It was unusual for everyone, and unfair for those learning how to parent a new baby.

Most of us have moved on, trying not to remember what those days were like.

But if you had a newborn 5 years ago, you’re about to send them off to kindergarten for the first time.

Those sweet babies who felt more fragile than ever are big kids now.

The excitement of backpacks and school busses, new teachers and friends might be exciting or it might bring back some of those worries from when they were new (for all families, but especially babies from 2020.)

What a big step. What a big exhale. What a big transition.

Be gentle with your hearts as you send them off. It’s a big day for any parent, but for the parents of babies born in a pandemic, it’s a bigger milestone than ever.

08/12/2025

When birth partners write the reviews
🥰

I am always thankful to walk alongside families through this journey, especially when it becomes a journey of healing and redemption.

07/24/2025

“Parenting is easy when you have a pile of rocks”

Incidentally, a pile of sticks is also applicable.

That was the caption on this photo and Facebook Memory that came up. I don’t remember what was so challenging about this time, but it must have been.

I expect it was just life with two littles and feeling overwhelmed.

The truth is, my husband was right. Any time, even now that my kids are big kids-any time they are getting on each other’s nerves, getting outside helps.

And to this day, if you find us at the beach in Waterton-there isn’t a rock or stick they haven’t found to occupy their time.

Sticks, rocks and water seem to be the best inexpensive way to calm this anxious mama’s nervous system.

What is your best trick?

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1013 2nd Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB
T1K2C9

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Monday	9:30am - 7pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 7pm
Friday	9:30am - 4pm

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+14038942823

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http://mothernurtureservices.ca/

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