Ready Babe

☀️ Summer at Ready Babe ☀️

We’re excited to bring you a lineup of events designed to educate, connect, and support families through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.

👐 June 25— BYOBaby Baby Sign Language & Music Class with Nicole from
🎵 Learn simple signs, enjoy music, and connect with other parents and babies.

🤰 July 18 — Pelvic Health Workshop: Birth Prep with Lauren from
💪 Prepare your body for labour, birth, recovery, and postpartum with evidence-based pelvic health education.

👕 July 23 — BYOBaby Baby Clothing Swap
Bring up to 10 gently used baby clothing items and take home some “new-to-you” pieces. Half of the proceeds and any leftover clothing items will be donated to a North Shore charity.

Spots are limited. Visit our website to register.

Because education matters. So does having a village. ❤️

Biology is doing some heavy lifting in the newborn stage.

The smell of your baby, skin-to-skin contact, feeding, cuddling, and even making eye contact can trigger oxytocin release in both parent and baby.

Oxytocin helps you feel connected to your baby while also lowering stress and supporting caregiving behaviours. At the same time, your baby’s brain is growing through every cuddle, snuggle, and comforting interaction.

Nature really said, “Here’s a tiny sleep thief. We’re going to make you obsessed with them anyway.”

Even if they bear a striking resemblance to Chris Farley. ❤️

Breastfeeding beyond 6 months comes with a whole new set of questions—about supply, frequency, solids, sleep, and what “normal” even looks like anymore.

We’re creating space to unpack those changes, talk through what’s common, and help you feel more confident in your feeding journey beyond the early weeks.

Come connect with other moms, let your baby explore gentle sensory stimulation in a calm environment, and enjoy snacks and coffee while you’re here.

At Ready Babe, we’re here to support you through every stage.

Visit our website to book your spot.

Newborn skin is sensitive and doesn’t usually need daily baths 🫧

Current recommendations support delaying the first bath when possible and limiting baths to a few times per week to help protect baby skin and preserve vernix.

Between baths, think more:
• face
• neck folds
• hands
• diaper area

Preparing for newborn care before baby arrives can make those early postpartum days feel much more manageable — including the practical stuff like feeding, bathing, diapering, sleep, and normal newborn behaviour 🤍 We cover all of this in prenatal classes at Ready Babe.

Sources: Perinatal Services BC (PSBC), HealthLink BC newborn bathing recommendations

3 things I’d recommend before having a baby as an L&D nurse + mom👇

1. Research postpartum support BEFORE you need it.
Find out what resources are available in your area — lactation support, pelvic floor physio, postpartum doulas, mental health support, and mom groups. Save the numbers somewhere easy to find because postpartum brain is real.
2. Practice coping skills before labour starts.
I always tell people to try the “hand in ice water” exercise. Put your hand in a bowl of ice water, then practice using coping tools like breathing, music, hot water, aromatherapy, movement, or a birth comb to stay calm and regulated through the discomfort. Labour is a skill as much as it is an experience — your nervous system benefits from practice.
3. See a pelvic floor physio — and actually DO the exercises.
Pelvic floor control, breathing mechanics, pushing coordination, and hip mobility can make a huge difference in pregnancy, birth, and recovery.

This is exactly the kind of practical prep we cover in Ready Babe prenatal classes 🤍
Taught by registered perinatal nurses for real-life pregnancy, labour, postpartum & newborn prep.

Getting ready for a labour & delivery night shift where I have absolutely no idea what the next 12 hours will bring 🌙✨
Could be a calm night of triage assessments and charting… or a full moon, back-to-back deliveries, and complete chaos. That’s the magic of L&D.

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If your newborn suddenly wanted to feed constantly on the second night… welcome to clusterfeeding. 🤍

This is VERY normal and catches a lot of parents off guard. Babies often become extra wakeful and want to feed back-to-back for hours, especially around night 2 and during growth spurts.

What’s happening:
• baby is learning how to feed
• your milk supply is getting stimulated
• they want comfort + closeness after the big transition earthside

What helps:

* skin-to-skin
* settle in somewhere comfy
* snacks + water within reach
* lower expectations for sleep that night
* let someone else handle literally everything else

It doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong or that baby “isn’t getting enough.” Clusterfeeding phases are temporary, even if they feel endless at 2am.

5 weird things about newborns that nobody really warns you about 👶🏼

1. That irresistible newborn smell comes from a mix of vernix, amniotic fluid, and their active little sweat glands.
That addictive baby smell is thought to help with bonding and attachment. Evolution really said “make the parents obsessed.”
2. Their breathing is wildly dramatic.
Fast, slow, pause, grunt, squeak… newborns breathe like tiny pug puppies and it’s deeply unsettling at 2am.
3. They can get little “baby boobs.”
Thanks to leftover hormones from pregnancy, some newborns get swollen breast tissue. Tiny puberty. Very rude.
4. Their hair can fall out… and grow back completely different.
Born with dark hair? Might turn blonde. Full head of hair? Might disappear entirely for a while.
5. They can randomly scratch their own face like an angry house cat.
Despite having absolutely no motor control for anything useful.

Newborns are weird. Cute. But weird. 🤍

Fetal movement information online can feel confusing, especially when every post seems to give different “rules.”

Current recommendations focus on becoming familiar with your baby’s normal movement patterns from around 28 weeks onward, rather than counting a set number of kicks each day.

A change in movement doesn’t always mean something is wrong — but it always deserves attention.

And no, you are never bothering labour & delivery by coming in to get checked 🤍

A Mother’s Day gift you’ll actually use 🤍

Take 10% off prenatal classes with code MOM10—and get a free Journey Jubilee baby care journal to keep all the little details in one place once baby arrives.

Perfect for you or an expecting mama 🤍
(Yes, it works on gift cards too.)

Valid now through Sunday ✨