Vital Roots Wellness

I must apologize to all my patients for my scribble some days - I got a good kick out of this today 😂

This is the last week to get your donations in for The Shoebox Project! Pickup of all donations will be on Friday, December 6th. Every little bit helps! 🎁

Give a special gift this year🎁 Support women in need from Campbell River & the North Island by donating to The Shoebox Project. We will be collecting items and shoeboxes until Friday, December 6th!

The clinic will be closed today, November 11th in honour of Remembrance Day.

For our new mommas: this is a beautiful post by an ND colleague who has become a momma, herself ❤️ Her last message, so clear but so often missed...REST is your best friend once babe arrives, don’t be afraid to stop and recover!!

I remember throughout pregnancy, tracking changes in an app. I would excitedly check to see what sort of fruit my baby was that week. Then post-birth, my app stopped telling me about my changes & told me exclusively about my little one.
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I still loved these updates, but given my education, I was shocked to see that other moms wouldn’t know about all the incredible changes. In our culture, we expect women to bounce back, but we don’t bounce back, we grow forward through this.
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Since your blood volume has gone up by 50% during pregnancy, you’ll find you will bleed heavily for 3-10 days, and that’ll continue for up to six weeks. In that time, your uterus will begin shrinking back into its pre-pregnancy size & position. There’s no app though to track the fruits as your uterus returns to its original size, but your body is no less incredible. In fact, your skin cells are rushing to repair any damage to your perineum or incision site if you had a c-section.
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Your hormones also go from sky high estrogen & progesterone, back down to their pre-pregnancy levels, often bringing a dramatic change to your emotions. By three days postpartum, prolactin, kicks in to signal the breasts to produce milk. Then milk is ejected with the bonding hormone, oxytocin, and in contrast to the drop of hormones, moms feel both incredibly in love & may want to cry along with their newborn.
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As if this isn’t enough, your brain is literally changing. We know that regions associated with complex emotional judgement & decision are adapting to be able to CARE as much as a momma needs to care for her little one. It’s an adaptive change, and more change is predictive of a more secure attachment for mom & baby 💕. I like this re-framing of our culture’s idea of ‘mommy-brain’: we’re not frazzled moms who can’t remember our words; rather we’re moms who love so much that we’re re-prioritizing our brain’s landscape.
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Momma, I get that you want to get back to normal. But I can’t recommend more the need for rest. If you need any guidance on optimal postpartum healing, I’m here for you.

Succinctly put! All those little niggling physical messages we get can grow to big ones which force us to stop. My favourite challenge for most every patient I see - commit to 5mins of REST daily = STOP AND DO NOTHING!! My version of that is to snuggle my pups first thing in the morning with my coffee as I wake up. What’s your version of rest??

October 24th is Polio Awareness Day! Stop by any local business with a purple display to donate and colour your pinkie purple.
Have a look at https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/community/rotary-adds-purple-window-displays-to-annual-polio-awareness-campaign/ to see what else Campbell River Rotary is doing to promote awareness. Let’s end Polio!💜

Two weeks away and we can’t wait to see all the spooky👻, silly🤡 and sweet🧚🏻‍♀️ costumes the kids of Campbell River come up with!🎃

Checkout www.downtowncampbellriver.com for all the latest news and events happening downtown!

We still can’t wrap our heads around how fast this year is going, but the long weekend is here! Have a very Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃 🍂

Clinic Hours:

Closed Monday, October 14th

Nervous about cold and flu season?😷We’ve got you covered! Try Pascoleucyn® Drops for a natural cold and flu solution🌿

Proud to serve Stonehouse Teas at our clinic! Today’s blend: Wild Orchard🍁

Excited to have Corina a part of our ever expanding team!

Great news!!! Glacier View Massage Therapy has expanded to Campbell River and joined the team of health care providers at Vital Roots Wellness and Campbell River Chiropractic. Corina Pletscher, RMT will be working there on Mondays! If this is a more convenient location for you, you'll be happy to know you can book a treatment in Campbell River as well by calling 250-287-7429. Comox location is open Tuesday-Friday normal hours as usual. Happy December everyone!