Tags: motherisk, clarins, morning sickness, pregnancy, sickkids, sick kids, shoppers drug mart, lip perfector, gideon koren, amanda martinez |
Categories: SickKids News, Donor stories
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Laura Bradley on
1/27/2011 5:32 PM |
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Chantal Dion, expectant mother to her third child, knows firsthand how debilitating nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP) can be on your body.
Morning sickness affects up to 80 per cent of women at some point during a pregnancy and in certain cases it can be unbearable. Chantal has experienced severe NVP with all three pregnancies. It wasn’t until she was pregnant with her second child that she became aware of safe medications to help combat the symptoms.
The advice was provided by Motherisk, a program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) that offers research and counselling to help ensure safe medical treatment for women during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
Chantal was still breastfeeding her second child when she became pregnant with her third. Experts at Motherisk helped her identify a medication for morning sickness that wouldn’t affect her breast milk or cause harm to her unborn baby.
“When I had no one else to turn to, Motherisk is the one place I could get reassurance and reliable information from specialists I could trust,” Chantal says.
Motherisk recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with a $1.5 million gift from Shoppers Drug Mart. This retailer continued its support today by announcing a partnership with Clarins to present the Kiss for Life campaign, a fundraising initiative to benefit Motherisk.
Beginning today through to February 14, while quantities last, $10 from the purchase of specially marked Clarins Lip Perfector sold exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart will be donated to Motherisk.
To kick off the campaign this morning at a Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart store, Chantal was joined by hosts of the boom breakfast show on Astral Radio’s boom 97.3, Colleen Rusholme and Humble Howard, as well as representatives from Shoppers Drug Mart, Clarins and SickKids, including Motherisk founder and director Dr. Gideon Koren.
Amanda Martinez, Canadian Latin/jazz artist and mother to two-year-old Leo, purchased the first Clarins Lip Perfector to celebrate the launch.
Chantal is currently in her third year at McMaster University, studying midwifery. She plans on taking time off when the new addition to her family is born this spring.