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    Five Creative Advocacy Ideas For Non Profits – #ivf4on #onpoli

    February 24, 2014 - By 

    My regular readers know I have been working with numerous non profits and charities to build their profiles on social media. I am community manager for Conceivable Dreams, the Ontario patient group advocating for better awareness and access to fertility treatments, and for Generations of Hope in Calgary. Conceivable Dreams has had some brilliant ideas over the last two years and their name/ brand as a non profit is extremely well known now, especially on social media. I am proud to have been part of their team. When we started we had about 50 followers on Twitter and we have…

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    Can you drink alcohol when pregnant? – #PreventFASD

    February 22, 2014 - By 

    Can you drink alcohol when pregnant? It’s a weighty, controversial question. So many popular myths still endorse drinking alcohol as culturally acceptable when pregnant. Many people still believe alcohol is okay to consume in moderate amounts when you are pregnant. This is an interactive post designed to get you thinking about drinking when pregnant and risks associated with that. Interactive and hands on learning works best for my child with FASD – fetal alcohol spectrum disorder – and the same is true of many of our children and young adults diagnosed with FASD. So let’s give this a try.   This…

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    What Makes EEVA Special? #EEVA1stBC

    February 18, 2014 - By 

    Imagine that you are one of the one in six people of reproductive age who struggles with infertility. Very often the medically recommended course of action is in vitro fertilization. The procedure itself can be costly. And like any medical treatment, you want to be sure you are making the best decision for your personal situation, your family. You want the best.    Infertility Treatment in BC Luckily if you live in British Columbia you have some remarkable fertility clinics to choose from and some amazing talented award-winning doctors like Dr. Sonya Kashyap, medical director of @GenesisIVFBC. Kashyap was mentored by Celine Dion’s fertility…

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    When It Takes a Community to Fund Your Family #ohip4ivf #onpoli

    February 18, 2014 - By 

    This post was written by one of the members of Conceivable Dreams. I am community manager for the group.  By Ashley Bulley  They say it takes an entire community to raise a family; in our case it took an entire community to afford one. My husband Adrian Arbos and I were married young. We started trying to conceive when I was 23. We’d been married for five years and we were ready to start a family. But, we couldn’t. We tried. We did all the tests to determine why we were infertile and eventually we discovered that a surgery my husband…

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    Family Day and Five Tips for How to Advocate Effectively

    February 14, 2014 - By 

    This Family Day it’s important for all Albertans to remember not everyone has family to share special days, or events with. In Alberta, as in many other provinces of Canada, 1 in 6 people struggle with infertility. For them, Family Day can be a painful reminder that something important is missing. How to Advocate Effectively This Family Day Generations of Hope, the Alberta infertility patient advocacy group, is urging all Alberta infertility patients and supporters to call their MLAs, write their MLAs and most importantly get in to see their MLA in person to share their experiences and remind them…

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    Mark The Date: Genesis Fertility – Ground-breaking IVF Technology

    February 12, 2014 - By 

    Maybe you are one of the one in six struggling with infertility in Canada. You’ve been through a devastating diagnosis and an initial consultation and now you are weighing treatment options. In vitro fertilization is one of those options. The cost can be $10,000 or higher, depending on whether medications are included, so it’s natural to wonder is there anything more I can do? Well, now Genesis Fertility in BC has a solution that can help. Genesis Fertility Clinic has EEVA, cutting edge technology that helps people venturing through the difficult terrain of infertility.  EEVA, the early embryo viability assessment…

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    Vaccine Drama: 5 Ways to Help with Needle Anxiety

    February 11, 2014 - By 

    Needle anxiety, or needle phobia, is very real for many kids and adults. One of my girls has anxiety, which is extremely pronounced around needles. When she was a baby she never balked at getting her vaccines. She was happy go lucky and hardly noticed at all. Then in the blink of an eye at around school age she started to be a worrier.   She worried about everything. I worried that she was worrying too much. Anyways you get the idea. We plugged in some supports and she manages most days very well. She has strategies. But the one area…

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    Boost Your Child’s Health with Webber Naturals

    February 10, 2014 - By 

    Post may contain affiliate links as a service to readers. Any purchase made via the link here results in a small commission for Thrifty Mommas Tips at no extra cost to you.   A good vitamin supplement like Treehouse Vitamins from Webber Naturals can be like nutritional insurance for your child. In this neck of the woods, during one of the nastiest cold and flu seasons we’ve witnessed in recent years, insurance is important. My kids eat well, but we lead a very busy active life and sometimes I worry. My youngest, is especially prone to colds, and flu bugs. And she…

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    Five Things You Could Have Bought for $10,000: If You Didn’t Have to Pay for IVF

    February 7, 2014 - By 

    This morning I had math on my mind. Well, math, health and shopping, actually. What do all three things have in common? Let me tell you. They all have had to pay for IVF.   I was talking to five Facebook friends across Canada and I tallied up the price tag of their collective infertility journeys. The tally came close to several hundred thousand dollars. That’s five families. $300,000 to $400,000 paid to build four families. One couple was not successful yet. I can tell you that the infertile couples I interview, and meet and talk to often as community…

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    Gaiam Tree of Wisdom Yoga Mat and Restore Therapy

    February 1, 2014 - By 

      We are pretty regular here when it comes to yoga. I have been practicing yoga since the kids were toddlers. Yoga gives me a break, helps with fitness, flexibility, balance and strength. Yoga also makes me feel more in charge of whatever crazy challenges life throws in my path. Plus, who doesn’t love relaxation time? My favourite part of the class.   Gaiam Tree of Wisdom Yoga Mat   I started using the regular mats at the YMCA a decade ago and moved onto a dollar store mat which lasted all of maybe two weeks. Those things off gas…