Planning for Pregnancy (featuring Dr. Cindy-Lee Dennis)

Carolyn Thomas, Mayo-clinic trained women's health advocate, heart attack survivor, author, speaker, and founder of the award-winning blog Heart Sisters, joins us for our twenty-first episode to discuss postpartum cardiovascular health. 

Dr. Cindy-Lee Dennis is a Professor at the University of Toronto, Women's Health Research Chair at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital, and Lead Investigator for HeLTI (Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative). She joins us for our twentieth episode to discuss planning for pregnancy and beyond.

Rebecca DeWare, Registered Dietitian at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre in the Diabetes and Pregnancy Clinic, joins us for our nineteenth episode to discuss dietary considerations in pregnancy in general, as well as specifics related to diabetes in pregnancy. 

Jocelyn Agravante, Nurse Practitioner with the Kingston Community Health Centre and Founder of the Down Syndrome Association of Kingston, joins us for our eighteenth episode to share her wealth of knowledge and experiences raising a child with Down Syndrome. 

Dr. Maria Velez, Associate Professor, Clinician-Scientist with a PhD in Public Health, and Specialist in Reproduction, Endocrinology, and Infertility at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, joins us for our seventeenth episode to discuss the Covid-19 Vaccine and Fertility including debunking some of the myths and misinformation that have been circulating on social media. 

Dr. Laura Gaudet, Associate Professor, Clinician-Scientist, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, joins us for our sixteenth episode to discuss diabetes in pregnancy. 

Cindy Auchincloss, Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist, Owner, and Clinic Director of Kingston Pelvic Health, joins us for our fifteenth episode to discuss pelvic floor physiotherapy. 

Dr. Heather Watson, Psychosocial Obstetrics & Gynecology Fellow at the University of Manitoba specializing in Addiction and Mental Illness and how they intersect with Reproductive Health, joins us for our fourteenth episode to discuss cannabis use in pregnancy. 

Dr. Mark Walker, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist, Professor + Former Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Ottawa and Interim Vice-Dean of Internationalization and Global Health at the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine, joins us for our thirteenth episode to discuss the Covid-19 vaccine in pregnancy and breastfeeding. 

Dr. Sarah McDonald, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist, Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University, and Canada Research Chair in Maternal + Child Disease Prevention & Intervention, joins us for our twelfth episode to discuss delayed cord clamping at birth.