SIX-HOUR COURSE AT ST.
Course prepares fami

ST. PAUL'S Hospital is introduc-
ing a new course about new babies
— for moms, dads and children
who are expecting an addition to
their households.

As part of its Family Centred
Maternity Care, St. Paul's will
start. a six-hour course to help
prepare couples and their children
for the delivery of thes newborns.

Couples will learn the usual bir-

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GRIEVING AND ioss, none of us
like to face these alone. A course
sponsored by North Shore Family
Services is for people who need
support in this situation.

The course will take place on
Tuesdays, starting October 7 from
7:30 to 10 p.m. at North Shore
Family Services, 4303-126 East
1Sth Street, North Vancouver. The
fee is $40. Subsidies are provided.

Jessica Easton, the psychololgist
who leads this course, has had
both personal and professional ex-
perience with loss, Participants can
expect to receive support and in-
formation to help them deal with
these hard times.

For further information,
Claudia Webber at 988-5281.

call

Conference
features
‘magical’
children

MAGICAL CHILD Conference,
sponsored by Wondertree Educa-
tion Society and featuring best-
selling author and lecturer Joseph
Chilton Pearce, will be held on
September 26 to 28 in Vancouver.

Pearce weaves together current
educational theories with new
discoveries in the field of mind/
brain research.

He provides insight into
“nature’s plan’’ and suggests that
by following it adults can actually
change the world children will in-
habit. He provides an optimistic
world and life view and a new way
of enjoying and nurturing
children.

This conference is directed at
educators, health professionals and
parents.

Wondertree Education Society
also sponsors Wondertree Learn-
ing Centre and a parenting course
called ‘‘transparency’’.

The society supports projects
which demonstrate in practice the
results of current research into the
dynamics of human learning.

The conference begins with an
introductory evening at St. An-
drews-Wesley United Church on
Sept. 26 from 7 to 10 p.m. and
continues at the Westin Bayshore
on Saturday, Sept. 27 and Sunday,
Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tickets are available at Banyen
Books and Duthie Books. Contact
Maureen or Brent Cameron or
Marg Huber for further informa-
tion at 732-9902.

thing skills of relaxing, breathing,
positioning and comfort during
Sabor and delivery, but in addition
they will be able to prepare their
older children 10 welcome the new
baby.

The older children, through fa-
miliarity with the hospital and its
facilities and discussions with their
parents, will be less anxious and
more welcoming to the new child,

PAUL'S

said Gail Hunt, Director of
Obstetrics and Psychiatric Nursing
at St. Paul's.

The course includes two two-
hour sessions for mom and dad
only, plus a two-hour tour and
familiarization session.

Classes begin in lite September,
and the first session will start as
soon as six to eight couples have
been registered. No limit on the

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number of children from one fami-
ly who may attend has been set,
but courses will be set te group
children of the same age. Ideally,
families should attend the course
in the seventh or eighth month of
the mother’s pregnancy.

St. Pacl’s will also offer regular
new Condensed Prenatai Educa-
tion Programs, beginning this
September. if there are sufficient

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returning parents who want a
refresher, and for late applicants
to the eight-class basic Prenata}
Education Program which is of-
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Inquiries should be made to the
Prenatal Program, St. Paul's
Hospital, }O8} Burrard Sc, Van-
couver, B.C., V6Z 1V6, or phone
682-2344, local 2402.

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