Tender.Services

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Bilingual experts in trauma-informed, neuroprotective developmental care for NICUs.

We offer training, coaching, and consultation to transform care for newborns, families & professionals

Photos from Tender.Services's post 08/20/2026

The infant and family journey is connected. Our learning should be too. 🌊

Every experience—from birth and stabilization through hospitalization, transition and home—becomes part of what comes next.

During hospitalization, sleep, feeding, movement, positioning, skin-to-skin care, co-regulation and the sensory environment do not exist in isolation. They continuously influence one another and shape the experiences of infants and families.

Some threads belong across the entire journey.

Family partnership is not one step in care—it should be present throughout. And when the hoped-for journey changes, palliative and compassionate care must be recognized as an essential parallel pathway, held with intention and humanity.

This connected journey is shaping the TIDE learning experience.

What part of the infant and family journey do you think professional education needs to connect more intentionally?

**TIDE: An Immersive Learning Experience**
*Reimagining the Infant & Family Journey from Birth to Home*

April 14–16, 2027
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

Join the TIDE interest list: tenderservices.ca/tide

08/18/2026

We are excited to share that Isabelle Milette and Chantel Morin will be presenting together at WAIMH 2026, the World Association for Infant Mental Health’s 19th World Congress, taking place in Toronto this October.
This feels like such a meaningful space for our work at T.E.N.D.E.R. Services.
Trauma-informed developmental care, neonatal care, infant mental health, early relationships, safety, regulation, and family partnership are deeply connected. The earliest experiences of care matter — especially for premature and medically fragile infants whose first relationships and environments are often shaped within healthcare systems.
We are looking forward to learning, connecting, and contributing to this global conversation with professionals committed to nurturing the youngest minds and supporting stronger futures for babies, families, and communities.
Thank you to WAIMH 2026 for providing this presenter graphic.
📍 Toronto, Ontario
🗓 October 2–6, 2026

08/12/2026

There is a moment when an idea stops feeling like a dream and starts feeling real.

For us, choosing Pillar and Post was one of those moments.

We were looking for more than meeting rooms. We wanted a setting that reflected the experience we hope to create—warm, intimate and welcoming, with room to connect, breathe and learn differently.

From the moment we walked in, we could imagine TIDE taking shape there: the conversations, the relationships, the practical learning and the community gathering around a shared commitment to infants and families.

There is still so much happening behind the scenes, and we cannot wait to bring you along as the faculty, program and experience unfold.

Thank you for the incredible encouragement you have already shared with us. Watching people respond to this vision has meant more than we can say.

What would make a professional learning experience feel truly different to you?

**TIDE: An Immersive Learning Experience**
*Reimagining the Infant & Family Journey from Birth to Home*

Photos from Tender.Services's post 08/10/2026

Positioning is not about making the baby look “cute” or neatly tucked in.
It is about helping the infant’s body find support, boundaries, flexion, and midline.
When positioning is not well supported, infants may rest in more extended or open postures. Their arms and legs may drift away from the body, and they may need to spend more energy trying to organize themselves.
Supportive positioning helps bring the infant back toward flexion, containment, and regulation.
A helpful question at the bedside is:
Does this position help the baby look and feel more organized?
For premature and medically fragile infants, positioning is part of neuroprotective care. It supports sleep, physiologic stability, comfort, and the infant’s ability to recover from stress.
Small shifts matter.


Le positionnement ne vise pas seulement à rendre le bébé "bien installé" ou à créer une belle image.
Il aide le corps du bébé à retrouver de la contenance, de la flexion, des limites corporelles et une meilleure organisation.
Lorsqu’un bébé n’est pas suffisamment soutenu, ses bras et ses jambes peuvent s’éloigner du corps. Il peut se retrouver en extension, plus ouvert, et devoir utiliser davantage d’énergie pour tenter de s’organiser.
Un positionnement soutenant aide le bébé à revenir vers la flexion, la ligne médiane, la régulation et le repos.
Une question simple Ă  se poser au chevet :
Ce positionnement aide-t-il le bébé à être plus organisé?
Pour les nouveau-nés prématurés ou médicalement fragiles, le positionnement fait partie des soins neuroprotecteurs du développement.
Les petits ajustements comptent.

08/06/2026

It’s official—TIDE has found its home. 🌊

We are thrilled to announce that the inaugural TIDE Experience will take place:

April 14–16, 2027
Pillar and Post Inn & Spa
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

TIDE is an immersive learning experience created for neonatal and perinatal professionals—and for everyone committed to improving the journey of infants and families.

This will not be another traditional conference.

We are creating an intentionally paced, interactive experience where evidence is brought to life through practical application, meaningful conversation, reflection, movement and connection.

TIDE: An Immersive Learning Experience
Reimagining the Infant & Family Journey from Birth to Home

Save the date and visit our new TIDE webpage to join the interest list. You’ll be among the first to receive faculty, programming, accommodation and registration updates.

https://tenderservices.ca/tide

We cannot wait to welcome you aboard.

07/30/2026

When a newborn is admitted to neonatal care, families are often asked to enter a world they did not expect.
A world of monitors, unfamiliar language, clinical routines, uncertainty, and waiting.
In that space, belonging matters.
Not as a nice extra.
Not as a family satisfaction strategy.
Not as something we add when the unit is less busy.
Belonging supports regulation.
When families are welcomed, oriented, trusted, and supported, they are better able to be present with their newborn. They can learn their newborn’s cues. They can participate in comfort, connection, feeding, holding, and co-regulation.
And the newborn receives care through the relationship they know best.
Trauma-informed developmental care asks us to look at the family experience as part of the clinical environment.
Because how families are held shapes how they are able to hold their newborn.


Lorsqu’un nouveau-né est admis en soins néonataux, les familles entrent souvent dans un monde qu’elles n’avaient pas imaginé.
Un monde de moniteurs, de langage clinique, de routines inconnues, d’incertitude et d’attente.
Dans cet espace, le sentiment d’appartenance compte.
Pas comme un petit plus.
Pas comme une stratégie de satisfaction des familles.
Pas comme quelque chose qu’on ajoute lorsque l’unité est moins occupée.
Le sentiment d’appartenance soutient la régulation.
Lorsque les familles sont accueillies, orientées, reconnues et accompagnées, elles sont mieux en mesure d’être présentes auprès de leur nouveau-né. Elles peuvent apprendre à reconnaître ses comportements, participer au réconfort, au lien, à l’alimentation, au peau à peau et à la corégulation.
Et le nouveau-né reçoit des soins à travers la relation qu’il connaît le mieux.
Les soins du développement axés sur la prévention du traumatisme nous invitent à considérer l’expérience familiale comme faisant partie de l’environnement clinique.
Parce que la façon dont les familles sont soutenues influence la façon dont elles peuvent soutenir leur nouveau-né.

07/27/2026

Education can inspire a shift.
It can give teams shared language.
It can reconnect practice to evidence.
It can help people see care differently.
But education alone does not always change culture.
For trauma-informed developmental care to become part of everyday practice, teams need more than information. They need time to apply it, leaders who reinforce it, workflows that support it, and opportunities to reflect on what gets in the way.
They need coaching.
They need repetition.
They need practical tools.
They need room to ask, “How do we actually do this here?”
That is the work of implementation.
Not adding one more thing.
Helping the right things become easier to do consistently.


La formation peut inspirer un changement.
Elle peut donner aux équipes un langage commun.
Elle peut reconnecter la pratique aux données probantes.
Elle peut aider les professionnels Ă  voir les soins autrement.
Mais la formation seule ne transforme pas toujours la culture.
Pour que les soins du développement axés sur la prévention du traumatisme fassent partie de la pratique quotidienne, les équipes ont besoin de plus que de l’information. Elles ont besoin de temps pour l’appliquer, de leaders qui la soutiennent, de processus qui la rendent possible et d’espaces pour réfléchir à ce qui fait obstacle.
Elles ont besoin de coaching.
Elles ont besoin de répétition.
Elles ont besoin d’outils concrets.
Elles ont besoin de pouvoir se demander : "Comment pouvons-nous réellement faire cela ici?"
C’est le travail de l’implantation.
Il ne s’agit pas d’ajouter une chose de plus.
Il s’agit d’aider les bonnes pratiques à devenir plus faciles à appliquer de façon constante.

07/23/2026

Good ideas are only the beginning.

We’ve both left learning events inspired by new evidence, thoughtful speakers, and so many possibilities—then returned to practice wondering how to actually make those ideas work in the real world.

That question is shaping TIDE.

We’re creating an immersive learning experience where evidence is not only shared, but explored in ways that feel practical, tangible, and possible to bring back to everyday care.

Because inspiration matters.

But what happens next matters even more.

TIDE: An Immersive Learning Experience
Coming in 2027.

07/22/2026

En soins néonataux, l’environnement n’est jamais neutre.
La lumière, le bruit, les odeurs, les manipulations, les alarmes, les voix, les mouvements et les interruptions façonnent tous l’expérience du nouveau-né.
Cela ne veut pas dire que la chambre doit ĂŞtre silencieuse.
Cela ne veut pas dire que les équipes doivent travailler dans des conditions irréalistes.
Cela ne veut pas dire que toutes les stimulations peuvent être éliminées.
Mais cela veut dire que l’environnement mérite notre attention.
Qu’est-ce qui peut être adouci?
Qu’est-ce qui peut être mieux planifié?
Qu’est-ce qui peut être regroupé, réduit, protégé ou soutenu?
Un environnement thérapeutique n’est pas une question de perfection.
C’est une façon de reconnaître la charge sensorielle autour du nouveau-né et de poser de petits gestes réfléchis qui soutiennent la régulation, la récupération, le sommeil et le lien.
Parce que la chambre n’est pas seulement l’endroit où les soins se déroulent.
La chambre fait partie des soins.


In neonatal care, the environment is never neutral.
Light, sound, smell, handling, alarms, voices, movement, and interruptions all shape the newborn’s experience.
This does not mean the room has to be silent.
It does not mean care teams have to work in unrealistic conditions.
It does not mean every stimulus can be removed.
But it does mean the environment deserves our attention.
What can be softened?
What can be timed differently?
What can be clustered, reduced, protected, or buffered?
A healing environment is not about perfection.
It is about noticing the sensory load around the newborn and making small, thoughtful decisions that support regulation, recovery, sleep, and connection.
Because the room is not just where care happens.
The room is part of the care.

Photos from Tender.Services's post 07/20/2026

Some professional work does more than shape how we practice.

Sometimes it gives us language for what we have lived.

For T.E.N.D.E.R.'s co-founder, Chantel, trauma-informed developmental care first became meaningful through neonatal nursing, education, and at the bedside. The science came first. The practice came first. The babies, families, and teams came first.

Only later did that same lens begin to illuminate parts of her own story.

As Chantel’s memoir, *Trauma-Informed Me: Finding My Light*, moves through the publishing process, we will be sharing small reflections on the connection between professional practice, lived experience, trauma-informed care, and the work of building gentler systems.

Because how we care matters.

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