Well Mom Network
Our motto is Empowered Moms = Healthy Families and Stronger Communities
The local practitioners and businesses listed below can help adult and child patients to:
improve mental, physical and emotional health
find inspiration, creativity and fun
celebrate being strong and capable women and mothers
help with pregnancy, birthing, postpartum, pelvic floor exercises, and more
If you’ve been hoping to learn and share ideas about motherhood - the Well Mom Network is the perfect place to discover helpful resources, connect with experts, and shop with local vendors.
We are pleased to announce that the Airdrie businesses listed below offer services that help to improve the health of moms of all ages, (and most of these businesses are owned and run by women).
Our Articles for Moms of all Ages to Improve Your Health
General health and wellbeing
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We had to include ourselves!
At Blessingways, we work as a team to offer women chiropractic and massage therapy services to help you move your body easier and in better alignment
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Naturopathy services + more
Dr. Richard Mountain and his team will help you improve your health naturally, They believe that your health is one of the most important treasures you can gain in life
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Dr. Candice Staniek - Naturopath
Dr. Candice Staniek’s approach to health includes the mind, body, and spirit. Gain clarity on your health issues with a laser focused treatment plan and a path to feeling and looking your best.
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Make sure your eyes see properly
Dr. Heather Cowie and her team offer premier eye exams and specialty treatments. Visit them for comprehensive eye exams, dry eye therapy, and vision therapy.
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Improve your core
Rafael Ramos de Burgos and his team work to help you improve your core strength and ability to move your body with a diverse range of services to meet both patient and customer needs.
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Your bra's fit matters
Lynn Kehoe and her team take the time to fit you properly for your next bra. Breast health is important. for all women and a proper fitting bra improves your posture and circulation. For our pregnant moms, Cream offers Bravado breastfeeding bras.
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Energy healing and more
Liane Pinel and her team at A Centre for Spiritual Health and Wellness, offer a safe place open to all people where creativity abounds. If they do not have it, they can help you find it or create it! Featuring local artisans.
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Sparkly teeth - sparkly smile
Sami Issa-Tasse at The beautiful tooth company is committed to providing high quality, gentle and affordable care in a relaxed environment that feels like home. Come experience this unique approach to dental care.
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Fertility acupuncture
Dr. Katie LI-Broussard and Dr. Jonna McQuade offer solutions regardless of the condition you are experiencing. They would love to be a part of your regime in keeping you healthy and active.
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Improve your health
Dr. Tanya McMillan offers a wide range of treatment modalities including traditional and sports medicine acupuncture, acupressure and herbal therapy using herbal formulas, decoctions, teas and/or topical treatments such as liniments and herbal plasters.
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Reduce stress with meditation
Reza provides mindfulness and meditative practices by combining divine wisdoms, ancient yogic and sufi practices to accelerate healing by balancing the mind, body and spirit. Reza’s classes help you cope better, increase your productivity and live a happier life!
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Heal your body
Tracey Gwendolyn offers coaching sessions using psychology of eating that help to address weight concerns, binge eating, overeating, body image challenges and various nutrition related health concerns.
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Move your body better
Jamie Bessant helps improve YOUR movement struggles and limitations. Her movement assessments analyze body awareness, posture, joints and muscular imbalances to uncover breakdowns in your system.
Pregnancy, midwifery, birth, postpartum and pelvic floor
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Midwifery birth
The Birds and Bees teams of midwives offer families personalized care, continuity and choices, while maintaining access to the entire team of midwives for back-up and support. Their relationship is one of partnership with the woman, her family and each other.
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Midwifery birth
The Briar Hill midwives share a common holistic midwifery philosophy and work closely together to ensure personal continuous care to women, their newborns, and their families.
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Find a doula near you
There are many talented women who are available to support your labour and birth. Doulas are scientifically proven to help you have easier births and faster postpartum recoveries.
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Arnica and Calendula for your birth kit
There are 2 must have items for your birth kit - arnica and calendula. We have them for purchase at Blessingways
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In-person pelvic floor classes
Join Dr. Laurence for 4 weekly classes to get reconnected to your pelvic floor. This class teaches about the muscles of the pelvic floor and offers strengthening exercises that you can do at home.
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Strengthen your pelvic floor
Anant Grewal has a passion to help improve a woman’s pelvis floor. She offers in-home pelvic floor physiotherapy services especially for new moms. Contrary to popular belief pelvic floor physiotherapy is much more than just Kegel exercises.
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Strengthen your pelvic floor
Lindsay MacKay and her team offer help for many conditions that can weaken the pelvic floor. Life events such as being pregnant, giving birth, stress, trauma, and surgery can affect the strength and coordination of these muscles.
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Strengthen your pelvic floor
Marhanda Keeping is both an orthopaedic and pelvic floor physiotherapist. She helps women overcome pelvic floor and/or pregnancy issues such as incontinence, prolapse, pelvic pain, diastasis recti, and chronic lower back/hip pain
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Water birth at home
Sonja Langejans and her team offer professional birth pool rentals for all home birthing families in Calgary/surrounding areas. Make your home birth planning even easier with customizable delivery/pick up options. You supply the water, CBPR will supply the rest.
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Pregnancy & beyond
Would you like to build skills and relationships that will help you to be successful during pregnancy and in the first year of your child’s life? Topics include parenting, prenatal, infant, and pediatric nutrition, and much more.
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Pregnancy Support
The Airdrie Pregnancy Care Centre is a non-profit organization providing ongoing support for pregnant women and new parents who are facing challenges in the community. Clients can get emotional and practical support, attend classes, and find connections during what can be a stressful time
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Childbirth and breastfeeding classes
Melanie Gaze helps pregnant and new moms be better prepared for childbirth and breastfeeding. Give yourself more resources before you have your baby and take a look at what Babies Best Start has to offer
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Lactation Consulting
Jasmine Buchanan provides in-home support to improve or resolve feeding concerns. Whether you are breastfeeding, formula feeding or both, she can help you and your baby achieve your feeding goals.
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Cookbook for breastfeeding moms with fussy babies
If you are breastfeeding and your baby is fussy, it could be the foods that you are eating! The Calm Baby cookbook provides information about what foods to avoid and why, and has 100+ delicious recipes to get started
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Hypnotherapy to help ease into motherhood
Denise Daudelin at Soulful Swan offers hypnotherapy and soulful birthing sessions that help to relieve perinatal anxiety and depression, improve transition from infertility to pregnancy, have a more peaceful birth, learn to love yourself, boost your self esteem and confidence after birth.
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Vaginal Rejuvenation
Rebecca McElhinney offers non-surgical advanced technology to rejuvenate your vaginal walls and tighten your pelvic floor. She can help to increase sexual sensation, reduce stretchmarks/scar tissue and more!
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Post-partum support group
Are you experiencing anxiety or low mood after the birth of your baby? If you are a mother who is looking for an opportunity to come together in a nonjudgmental environment and find support for post-partum, then we encourage you to attend this 5-week group.
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If your baby is not sleeping, you're not sleeping....
LIz Crowley at Little Sleep coach can help if your little one is not sleeping well. Liz helps babies and toddlers get to sleep, which in turn, helps you stay rested and better functioning for your day.
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Learn infant massage at home
Infant massage offers many health benefits to the baby AND the person giving the massage. Dr. Melanie has partnered with the Airdrie Public Library to offer an online infant massage class so that you can learn from homre.
Move your body better
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Here we are again
At Blessingways, we do believe that chiropractic adjustments and massage therapy helps you to move better, which ultimately helps you to live your life with energy and vitality!
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Move your body better
Rafael Ramos de Burgos and his team work to help you improve your core strength and ability to move your body with a diverse range of services to meet both patient and customer needs.
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Personal Training
Sheryl Jobbagy offers more than just training! Muscles n Motion offers specialized personal training, including group training, running programs, dry land sports training and muscle recovery training.
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Get active
Naomi Keane and her team offer classes each week including Warm & Hot Yoga, Barre, Aerial Yoga, Bootcamps, Cycle, HIIT, Cardio, Boxing, Kickboxing, Strength, Tabata, Step, Zumba, POUND, Dance and more, plus extras like child minding.
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Yoga, pilates and fitness classes
Brittney and her team offer yoga, pilates and many fitness classes for you to find what you need to improve your health, strength and flexibility. They offer prenatal yoga classes as well.
Mental health, community and parenting resources
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Strengthen your relationship with yourself
Michelle Neustaedter is a certified clinical counsellor specializing in individual and couples therapy. Michelle likes to support moms with strengthening relationships, parenting, stress management, work-life balance, and postpartum depression/anxiety.
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Meditate to calm your mind
Reza provides mindfulness and meditative practices by combining divine wisdoms, ancient yogic and sufi practices to accelerate healing by balancing the mind, body and spirit. Take one of Reza’s classes to cope better with life stressors, increase your productivity and live a happier life!
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Calm your mind and reduce stress
Sharla Crowie and her team help you recover and find relief from past events, trauma, anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, and other mental health symptoms you are experiencing. Social Workers, Nurses, Psychiatric Nurses, and Canadian Certified Counsellors provide individual and relationship counselling.
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Are you struggling as a new mom? Do you have post partum depression?
Claire Benadé offers specialized support for perinatal mental health, children & adolescents, and parent coaching. Starting in January 2024, she will offer Mama Mental Health, a postpartum therapeutic support group that is six sessions long, meeting weekly.
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Tapping or EFT decreases stress
This is a non-local entry that we have on the Well Mom Network. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or tapping) helps to decrease stress and promote wellbeing. The team at the Tapping Solution offer many meditations for moms to use any time you feel overwhelmed.
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Heartmath
Another non-local entry, but an amazing one! The Heartmath Institute has made groundbreaking studies on how your heart can affect your health. By changing the way that you breathe, you can shift from a state of incoherence, to coherence and reduce stress.
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Local parenting classes and more
Elissa Breakenridge and Jen Berg at Ready Set Soar are offering many classes for parents of babies and young children. Participants will engage in fun activities, connect and socialize, and learn about child development and effective parenting strategies.
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Women's programs
Community Links offers many programs for women thoughout the year. To find out more about the programs that are currently offered, please click on the button below.
Improve your quality of life
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Relax and let someone clean for you
Jacqui Jepson and her team provide best-in-class service to clean your home so that you can spend more time with your family and take time for yourself.
Our Articles for Moms about Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Improving your Health.
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