We are happy to reiterate that Vera and team continue to welcome clients into a partnership of care, despite now needing to live with COVID pandemic processes, as a part of daily life. We are currently welcoming clients looking for midwifery services that are due from December 2020 onwards.
Please look at our update below this one, to find information about MCNS COVID processes. Remember as BC moves into Phase 3 of our COVID pandemic that we need to all remain mindful of how we are feeling; isolating when we feel unwell, continuing with sanitizing our hands, physically distancing and wearing our masks when we are in crowded spaces inside or outside.
We are delighted to have Erika Mitchell RM join MCNS team to work-share with Vera Berard RM. She will be joining MCNS team in September 2020.
From the fall onwards, Liz Bodner RM will be working more on the Sunshine Coast and providing occasional locum services on the North Shore.
We are also thrilled to share some other practice news since our last update. In the fall last year, during BC’s annual breastfeeding week celebration (1-7 October, 2020), when Vera was in South Africa. North Vancouver City’s Mayor, Linda Buchanan, presented Bean-around-the-World-Cafe-on-5th-Street and Quayside Village Co-housing, a North Vancouver City Baby Feeding Welcome Sign in rainbow colours, to display on the outside of the building. This signage is recognition of the Café, Quayside Village and MCNS inclusive support of new families and their breastfeeding babies.
The Quintessence Foundation also acknowledged MCNS parent and baby cafe side chat group, for their participation in Quintessence’s annual breastfeeding challenge, to gather as many people together remotely in one place whose babies are breastfeeding or receiving breastmilk. Our appreciation goes to Kathleen Boake and baby Nolan for being the catalyst that enabled folk to meet regularly and to participate in BC’s 2019 annual breastfeeding week celebrations, as well as to Annette Lee owner Bean-around-the-World-Cafe-on-5th-Street for her support of new parents and their children having a place to meet.
We are excited that our MCNS Parent&Baby Cafe Side Chats could be starting up again soon, either in a small physically distancing group outside the Café, and/or a zoom group. Stayed tuned for further news! Any MCNS new parent that wants to meet other new parents and their babies during your parental leave, be sure to let Vera and team know. We will do our best to facilitate connecting folk together.
Information about Quintessence and this year’s annual breastfeeding celebrations be found at http://www.babyfriendly.ca/about-us
