This story was written in partnership with Lise Luppens and Randi Leanne Parsons. In this story we use the term "breastfeeding". We recognize that families may also use terms such as "nursing", "chest...
Doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists from across Northern British Columbia recently came together to learn how to better care for seriously ill children. This special training, called the Stabi...
We’re grateful for volunteers who choose to collaborate with us and support Northern Health (NH). Volunteers are invaluable in the health care system, lending their time to promote health and provid...
Northern Health (NH) is excited to announce that Robson Valley has been selected as a pilot community for implementing the Icelandic Prevention Model (IPM) in Northern BC! The IPM is an international,...
Meet Dr. Jacobus Strydom, a family doctor in Terrace, BC, with a passion for maternity care. I recently talked with him about a technique called prenatal hand expression.Dr. Strydom learned about this...
This is my family’s story about feeding our first child, Soren. Feeding was not as easy as I had anticipated. With the support of our local midwife, my dedicated partner, and a lactation consultant,...
“It felt like one long panic attack.” That’s how Tania Harling of Terrace, a mother of two teenage girls, describes the weeks just after she gave birth to her first daughter in 2007. “Th...
