"I sincerely hope that my Web Site will be of assistance and support to you and your family as you begin your exciting and life changing experience as Parents of Multiples. I welcome and appreciate your feedback, comments, stories and photos."
Lynda is the mother of three grown-up children: dizygotic twin daughters and another daughter, 22 months their elder. She has been involved with multiple birth issues for over two and a half decades, is a Past President of Multiple Births Families Association in Ottawa, Canada, as well as of Multiple Births Canada, Canada's National support organization for multiples and their families (www.multiplebirthscanada.org). Lynda, has been teaching multiple-birth specific prenatal classes for nearly two decades in the Ottawa area. Lynda and has written, developed and expanded the support literature for new and expecting parents (and for grandparents too!).
Besides assisting parents expecting multiples, Lynda has also worked extensively with bereaved multiple-birth families as well as with surviving co-multiples. She has spoken at Perinatal Loss Conferences as well as written and developed bereavement support literature on numerous topics which has been distributed Nationally and Internationally. This bereavement literature has been compiled by Multiple Births Canada into a Multiple Birth Bereavement Support Kit for use by bereaved families and the professionals who care for them. Lynda created Multiple Births Canada's Loss Support Network and has been writing a monthly e-newsletter, Forever Angels, for fifteen years.
Lynda has been a member of the Ottawa Coalition for the Prevention of Low Birth
Weight for 12 years and was its Chair for the final five years. Together with Diane Myers and Donna Launslager (two quad Moms and each with singletons as well), she developed the multiple birth low birth weight information on the Coalition's Web Site.
Lynda is/was a member of the following Committees:
Chair, Ottawa Coalition for the Prevention of Low Birth Weight
Steering Committe member of an initiative entitled "Co-bedding Premature Twins in the NICU: Pilot Study"
Canadian Coalition for the Prevention of Developmental Disabilities
Ottawa Community Prenatal Committee of the Ottawa Regional Health Unit, where she developed the prenatal content for multiple birth prenatal classes.
Lynda has enjoyed speaking to several groups - Hospital Bereavement Committees; Nursing students at both the university and community college level; Lactation Consultants; as well as contributing to numerous Panels on Bereavement and other topics germane to multiple birth. Click Here for information regarding speaking engagements.
2003/2004 - Multiple Births Canada's "Making a Difference Award," International Category (take a look!)
2000 - Multiple Births Canada's "Making a Difference Award," National Category (here it is)
Published articles and multiple birth support literature:
Health and Breatsfeeding
Surviving Bedrest, article for Health Reference Series, Second Edition, Pregnancy and Birth Sourcebook, Omnigraphics, Page 297, 2004, ISBN 0-7808-0672-7
Pregnancy and Birth Sourcebook, Second Edition, Health Reference Series, Edited by Amy L. Sutton, Omnigraphics, 2004, Section 31.2, Surviving Bed Rest, Lynda P. Haddon and Sandra Tompkins, Page 297
Focal Point on Breastfeeding: Teaching Breastfeeding to Parents Expecting Multiples, by Susan Moxley and Lynda P. Haddon, International Journal of Childbirth Education, Vol. 14, No. 1, March, 1999
Miscellaneous
Singleton Sibling Booklet, by Lynda P. Haddon, Multiple Births Canada
Article Reviewer Preparing Prenatally for More than One, Creating Families, Canadian Journal of Reproductive Health, Winter 2010, Vol. 5, No. 2
Raising Multiples, article Grand Rapids Family magazine, www.grfamily.com, June, 2003
Bereavement
Remembering Our Angels: Personal Stories of Healing from a Pregnancy Loss, Hannah Stone, www.lulu.com, 2007 - Lynda offered a multiple birth loss perspective, Page 40
Loss in Multiple Birth: Dealing With the Loss of Multiple Birth Babies, article in The Independent, the official publication of the International Order of the Golden Rule, Page 10, November/December, 2003
The Survivor, Lynne Schulz, Pleasant World, 2003 - Lynda wrote the Forward for Lynne's important support resource.
Pregnancy After Loss, articel co-authored with Canadian author Ann Douglas
Foreward, The Survivor, by Lynne Schulz, Pleasant Word, 2003
Lynda's Other Projects
Fact Sheets - Numerous Facts Sheets on various multiple birth topics for Multiple Births Canada, www.multiplebirthscanada.org
Lynda is the mother of three grown-up children: dizygotic twin daughters and another daughter, 22 months their elder. She has been involved with multiple birth issues for over two and a half decades, is a Past President of Multiple Births Families Association in Ottawa, Canada, as well as of Multiple Births Canada, Canada's National support organization for multiples and their families