Virtual Clinical Support
For health care providers, friendly clinical help is just a click or call away. Advice is available in real-time 24/7 on the phone or over video for questions regarding perinatal or newborn clinical decision-making and patient transfers.
Provincial support
Patient Transfer
Transferring patients to a hospital or other health facility that provides a higher level of care, within B.C.
Rural and Remote support only
Maternity and Babies Advice Line (MaBAL)
Family physicians with expertise in perinatal and newborn care available 24/7.
Child Health Advice in Real-time Electronically (CHARLiE)
Pediatricians, pediatric emergency physicians, and pediatric intensivists available 24/7.
Spindle Whorl
by Coast Salish artist Aaron Nelson-Moody
The Spindle whorls are weighted discs that are fitted onto a long spindle. Spindle whorls are commonly used by Coast Salish weavers when creating traditional regalia. While women are often considered to be the primary keepers of the teachings of the craft, weaving materials were often gathered by the entire family and the tools, such as the spindle whorl, were often made by men to support women in their work. The spindle whorl design therefore represents cooperative family work. In this spindle whorl artwork, the circle in the centre represents the baby and the larger whorl represents the mother. The berries represent the flourishing community surrounding the child, waiting to love and support the family and child. The four-pointed "star" design portrays the four directions.
This comes from the Honouring Indigenous Womens and Families Pregnancy Journeys PDF. (perinatalservicesbc.ca)
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