Supplementation in Pregnancy to Improve Your Infant’s Health
Prenatal care is more than routine ultrasounds and medical monitoring. It encompasses all the factors that play a part in a healthy pregnancy such as a your nutritional, physical and mental health as well. And while conventional prenatal care focuses primarily on detecting and reducing complications such as birth defects, preterm delivery, infant and maternal…
How Can Prenatal Counselling Help?
The reality of pregnancy is different from the vision of elegant serenity that we’re shown on social media. Unfortunately, pregnancy isn’t all glowing skin and reading books to your growing belly. For many women, there are as many downsides as there are upsides. Luckily, as part of Oona’s prenatal services, we offer prenatal counselling sessions….
Top 10 Foods to Eat While Pregnant
What Food You Should Be Eating During Your Pregnancy One of the services that we offer at Oona is nutrition and pregnancy diet consultation. It’s important to know what food to eat while pregnant so that you can make healthy choices for both you and your baby. Here’s a short list of our top 10…
Pregnancy Hormones Broken Down by Trimester
From the moment you become pregnant, your body is on a hormonal rollercoaster. As a result, you can experience symptoms that you have never had to deal with before you in your life. Here’s what you can expect from your hormones in every trimester of pregnancy. The First Trimester Hormones Progesterone A hormone that is…
10 Ways to Relieve Pregnancy Back Pain
One of the biggest complaints many pregnant women have is back pain. As your body makes room for the new life growing in your tummy, things tend to get pushed out of the way. Your pelvis tilts forward, your lower back can curve, and your muscles can stretch and everything feels like it’s expanding. All…
How Do I Get My Baby To Latch Better?
A deep latch can be kind of challenging for a new parent and for a new baby. Latching refers to the seal between your baby’s mouth and the breast or chest, allowing them to transfer milk with no discomfort for the mom. A deep latch helps baby grasp more breast tissue which helps the milk…
Body Confidence During Pregnancy
Contributing post by Joyce Lim, Founder and President of Sprout Collection, a maternity clothing rental subscription company based in Toronto. Most first time mamas don’t realize that a rapidly blooming belly is just one of the many changes your body will go through during pregnancy. Engorged breasts and enlarged hips, butt and thighs are…
Women of Influence: Dr. Sarah Mickeler
Oona started as a dream — a faraway thought, really. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought we’d be where we are today. In the span of two years we’ve opened two clinic locations, one in Toronto and another in Newmarket hired a roster of incredible staff and helped hundreds of women through…
What Are The Symptoms Of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction?
One of the most commonly talked about side effects of being pregnant and giving birth is the possibility of incontinence or difficulty controlling your bowels, otherwise known as pelvic floor dysfunction. Because of the way it’s portrayed in the media, we seem to think that pelvic floor dysfunction is an inevitability of motherhood and therefore…
Pelvic Floor Disorders
What Are Pelvic Floor Disorders And How Can They Be Treated? Leaking a bit of pee when you cough, laugh, sneeze or jump, or just not making it to the bathroom on time is common in pregnant women and new moms, but it’s not normal! Our patients tell us all the time that they only…
Life After Birth
As much as we may try to prepare, there is really nothing that can truly prepare you for what life will be like after your baby is born. There is life before baby and then there is life after baby. While things may look more or less the same to an outsider, life after having…
