This site is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for personal medical advice, attention, diagnosis or treatment. If you are concerned about your health or your baby's health, please consult your family's health care provider immediately.
Birthing Pool Rentals
- Birth with Confidence
Birth With Confidence specializes in everything to do with water labour and waterbirth! We offer waterbirth pools for rent and sale. Rent the heated Gentle Birth Pool or check out the new Birth Pool in a Box.
Breastfeeding
Carriers
- Belle Baby Carriers
Unlike other baby carriers and baby slings, Belle Baby Carriers distribute your baby's weight to your hips instead of your back and shoulders, and place your baby in a proper, ergonomic position that supports your baby's developing spine.
Childbirth Education Classes
- Calgary Childbirth Education Association
Certified and experienced childbirth educators, birth doulas, lactation consultants, all experts who can help you achieve your birth and parenting goals.
- Calgary Health Region
Healthy lifestyles in pregnancy, preparing for childbirth, preparation for your new baby, parenting classes and lots more!
Clothing
- Baby Rock Apparel
Hip children's wear with an Edge! Where you will find a unique assortment of stylish baby clothes, trendy toddler clothing, as well as, casual boys apparel & edgy hip baby gifts & punk clothes for children. Our trendy toddler clothes, boys hoodies, newborn shoes, newborn hats and music make for the perfect girl and boy gifts!
- Baby Bamboo
Bamboo is the new cotton (cotton is so passe). Indulge your child in bamboo baby clothing - they'll love you for life.
- Turning Life
Find a great selection of green living and sustainable gifts, bedding, clothing and home, yard and garden decor.
Cord Blood Banking
- Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: LifeBank
Lifebank is Canada’s first and most respected umbilical cord blood stem cell bank, providing dedicated stem cell storage to Canadian families since 1996. Lifebanks cord blood samples have been collected from over 180 Hospitals and Womens Centres across Canada.
- Umbilical Cord Blood Donation: Alberta Cord Blood Bank
The Alberta Cord Blood Bank is a non-profit organization dedicated to the collection and preservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells for public use.
Fitness
Midwives
- Alberta Association of Midwives
A midwife is a specialist in normal pregnancy and birth. She works with other caregivers to provide women and their babies the best possible care during the childbearing year.
Nutrition
- First Step Nutrition
Nutrition services provided by a dietician, specializing in nutrition for new moms, moms-to-be and their babies.
Parenting Resources
- Professional Parenting
Parenting speakers for your work, church, exercise and bookclub groups.
- Raymond Parenting
Kitty Raymond is a pediatric sleep specialist, working with parents of infants to school-age children. In addition to teaching parents how to help baby or toddler become a good sleeper, Kitty offers phone consultations and seminars in child development, behavior management, toilet learning and many other issues parents may be concerned about.
- The Relationship Resource
Amy Marshall RN MN of The Relationship Resource offers marriage strengthening, education, and consultation services to expecting couples and couples who are parenting young children. The transition to parenthood is a vulnerable time in most marriages. Strengths-based education and consultations are offered to strengthen marriages and thereby enrich family life.
Recommended Reading
Specialty Items
- Basekets by Serendipity
Unique gift solutions for all occasions, and NO GST! Give a gift to remember...a Basket by Serendipity.
- Birthday in a Box
Choose from more than 100 themes for great parties for kids and baby showers, plus thousands of party supplies like pinatas, decorations, favors, personalized invites and banners, and more!
- Doula Network
Find more doula's in your area.
- Happy Kids Productions, Inc.
Here you can have any baby gift personalized, including a unique gift baby will enjoy. Personalized childrens books and personalized photo books as well.
- Milk Bands LLC
Give your nursing journal a rest! Throw away your safety pins and stickers! Quit juggling objects from wrist to wrist! Stop relying on imperfect memory! Milk Bands™ are a uniquely designed nursing bracelet that enables the mother to quickly and conveniently identify which breast she last used to feed her baby by simply turning the bracelet inside-out!
- Only Kids Hangers
Children’s wooden, plastic, and metal hangers, kid’s closet organizers and more.
- Safe Beginnings
Here’s where you’ll find the largest selection of carefully selected babyproofing products for your home. Select baby gates for stairs, doorways and entryways. We offer child safety gates in every size you need, from the narrowest to the widest openings.
- Sign Language for Baby
Official store of Signing Time! sign language TV series. Full line of sign language products for children including DVDs, Music CDs, flashcards, books, and more. It has never been easier to teach your your baby sign language.
- Special Slices
Cakes for all occasions. Remember those special occasions like 1st Birthdays, Communions or any other event with a cake.
- Tiny Prints
Hip, Modern Birth Announcements & Other Stationery!
- True Reflections of the Heart....cards4gifts.com
Words that will live in their hearts forever
back to top