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Saturday 9am - 4:30pm Tues to Fri 10am - 9:30pm

MUSEUM: 11am - 5pm

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Sat 9am - 4:30pm
Tues to Fri 9:30am - 5pm

CLOSED Sundays, Mondays and Statutory holidays

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Women & Intercultural

WOMEN & INTERCULTURAL 異文化と女性

MOM Prenatal Class for Japanese Women MOM出産準備教室
*Please contact MOM for schedule
*Recommend to finish all classes during the pregnancy between 20 and 36 weeks.
*New courses start every two months. Please contact MOM for schedule.
Registration: e-mail or 604.980.8539 or http://canadamom.babymilk.jp
*Limited 10 families/couples

MOM offers Japanese prenatal courses to learn pregnancy, childbirth, and basic knowledge for nursing in a series of 4 classes. For fully understandings and supports from husbands and families of the international marriage couples, we have an interpreter for people who don’t speak Japanese. You will eliminate the nervousness for pregnancy or labor and find new friends.

Class topics include lifestyle during pregnancy, the mechanisms of labour, breathing methods and pain relief massage using the Lamaze method, breast-feeding and breast care, postnatal lifestyle, care for the newborn babies. Home Guidance after childbirth and breast-feeding tutorial training are optional with a discount price.

Topics
Class 1: Basic mechanisms of pregnancy, physiologic and physical changes.  Early discovery of anything unusual happens to your body, nutrition and exercise
Class 2: The labour, breathing methods, and postnatal lifestyle
Class 3: New born babies, bathing, baby care basics, growth process of babies and postpartum care
Class 4: Breast-feeding and breast care, massage, questions and answers