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Postpartum Depression

The birth of a new baby is a much-anticipated event but this life-changing experience can often lead to postpartum depression or a postpartum mood disorder in many women. New moms need to know that postpartum mood disorders are common and there’s help for them.

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The Ontario Association of Optometrists (OAO) is providing free eyeglasses along with an exam by local optometrists to all junior kindergarten children. The Eye See…Eye Learn program will be offered to junior kindergarten students in Dufferin-Peel, Halton, Hamilton-Wentworth and Windsor-Essex during the 2010/2011 school year.

"Don’t be surprised like I was and find out that your six-year-old daughter, who just completed senior kindergarten, is legally blind in one eye," warns Jennifer Hartman, an Oakville parent. "I feel so terrible that I didn’t know that she couldn’t see well. There were no signs that she had a problem."

The Eye See…Eye Learn program was created to address the troubling Ontario statistic that shows less than 20 per cent of children have an eye exam before entering school, despite the fact that annual eye examinations are covered by OHIP for children 19 years of age and under.

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