Starter resources for your review and consideration
Maternity Ward Tours
Familiarize yourself with your chosen birth place
Hospital Packing List
Packing your hospital bag in advance helps reduce last-minute stress, ensuring you have everything you need for a comfortable birth and postpartum stay.
Positions and Comfort Measures
Comfort measures may ease labor pain directly or indirectly by soothing and relaxing you.
Partner’s Guide to Labour Support
As the birth partner, learn what to expect during pregnancy, birth, and the transition home with your new baby. Supporting one another throughout pregnancy and postpartum strengthens your connection and builds confidence as a team.
Learn how a partner can Give support and Get support
Evidence based resources
Evidence-based birth resources provide reliable, research-informed information to help you make confident decisions throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Click through to see VCH’s guide to when to call / come to hospital, What to bring to the hospital, What to do if you are sent home in early labour, and more about Hospital directions and phone numbers