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SLEEP PROTECTION = MENTAL HEALTH PROTECTION

Preventive perinatal support for growing families

Steady Start Perinatal Care helps families protect sleep, safeguard mental health, and navigate the early parenting transition with thoughtful, relationship-based support

Explore the Steady Start approach

Sleep Protection
Mental Health Monitoring
Support Networks
Escalation Pathways

A simple starting point:

A personalized consultation designed to help families prepare for the emotional, relational, and practical challenges of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum transition.

No booking or payment until after discovery call

Schedule a Discovery Call

Why families seek support

Pressures & Stresses

The transition to welcoming a baby is one of the most profound developmental shifts a family experiences. In addition to excitement and joy, families are carrying sleep disruption, emotional overwhelm, limited support, and the pressure to do everything “right.”

Planning ahead:

Some families reach out during preconception or pregnancy to create a thoughtful plan before the baby arrives. This is the foundational starting point of the Steady Start model.

When things feel overwhelming:

Other families seek support after birth, when exhaustion, anxiety, relationship strain, or a difficult start make it clear that more support is needed.

Both pathways belong here

The Steady Start discovery call was created to offer a thoughtful first conversation before families commit to any service, so they can feel clearer about what kind of support would actually be helpful.

The Steady Start approach

A prevention-oriented perinatal support model

The Steady Start Protection Framework is a prevention-oriented perinatal support model designed to strengthen the foundations that help families remain steady during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

The framework draws on principles from infant mental health, developmental science, and years of direct experience supporting families during the earliest stages of parenthood.

At the center of the framework is a simple idea: when families protect sleep, monitor emotional wellbeing, strengthen support systems, and know what to do when challenges intensify, they are far more likely to experience a supported transition into parenthood.

Every family is on a journey of parenting. Nobody is behind!

Planning for Protection

Consultations & Check-Ins

The primary entry point for families preparing for pregnancy or welcoming a baby. Every new family begins with a brief discovery call so Danielle can learn about your situation, timing, and whether Steady Start is the right fit.

This consultation is the best starting point for families who want proactive, prevention-oriented support before stress becomes overwhelming.

Consultations & Check-Ins

Two sessions: intake (groundwork) + planning (design)

Personalized perinatal mental health protection plan

Mapping your support networks

Sleep and mental health planning

Follow-up: Steady Check-Ins

Brief follow-up consultations for monitoring adjustment, refining support plans, and responding early when stress is increasing

Steady Support Consultation

Postpartum sleep support: Nightlight Overnight Care

A targeted entry point offering in-depth support for families navigating sleep disruption, overwhelm, sibling transition, or another specific early parenting challenge. Every new family begins with a brief discovery call so Danielle can learn about your situation, timing, and whether Steady Start is the right fit.

This consultation is the best starting point for families who want tailored support for a specified issue.

Postpartum sleep support: Nightlight Overnight Care

Sleep-protection support during the early months postpartum, designed to help families stabilize routines and protect parental recovery. Every new family begins with a brief discovery call so Danielle can learn about your situation, timing, and whether Steady Start is the right fit.

This option is the best starting point for families who know they want to get more sleep than they are currently getting.

Some journeys are more complex from the beginning.

Steady Start is designed to offer flexibility when families’ experiences call for additional support

Examples of specialized support:

After a hard start: NICU or medical complexity
Support for parents of multiples
Perinatal separation pathways (surrogacy/adoption)
Sibling adjustment and family transition

Healthcare professionals

Steady Start is designed to offer flexibility when families’ experiences call for additional support

Steady Start partners with perinatal mental health providers, obstetric teams, midwives, lactation consultants, and infant care specialists. The model is designed to complement and support — not replace — medical or mental health care.

Danielle frequently collaborates with obstetricians, midwives, pediatricians, therapists, and other members of a family’s care team when the family decides that coordinated support would be beneficial.

Schedule a discovery call to find out if Steady Start can help support better outcomes for your patients or clients

Schedule a Discovery call

Meet Danielle

THE WHY

Postpartum Care & Education

About Danielle

Steady Start Perinatal Care was created to support families during one of the most meaningful — and often overwhelming — transitions of life: welcoming a new baby.

About Danielle

Postpartum Care & Education

About Danielle

Danielle McLellan-Bujnak, MSc, PMH-C, ICPD, IFEC-ATMHP is a postpartum support professional, master newborn care specialist, and educator with more than two decades of experience supporting infants and their families.

Mental Health Endorsements

Postpartum Care & Education

She is a Perinatal Mental Health Certified professional (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International and holds the Infant-Family & Early Childhood Mental Health Practitioner endorsement (IFEC-ATMHP).

Postpartum Care & Education

Danielle is also an ICEA Certified Postpartum Doula (ICPD) and she teaches child development and early childhood education at the college level, where she prepares future educators to understand the complex ways that development unfolds during the earliest years of life.

Importance of Sleep& Support

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Importance of Sleep& Support

Over many years of working closely with families in the early weeks after birth, Danielle began to notice something important: when parents’ sleep, emotional wellbeing, and support systems were protected early, families were far more likely to feel steady, confident, and connected during the transition into parenthood.

Steady Start Framework

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Importance of Sleep& Support

That observation eventually grew into the Steady Start Protection Framework: a prevention-oriented approach that helps families plan for the realities of the postpartum period before stress becomes overwhelming.

Evidence Based Practice

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Danielle’s work brings together infant mental health principles, developmental science, and relationship-centred care to help families feel supported, respected, and capable as they welcome their baby.

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Steady Start Perinatal Care reflects a simple belief: when families are supported early, the transition into parenthood can unfold with greater steadiness, confidence, and care.

Email Danielle

Not sure where to begin?

THE DISCOVERY CALL IS YOUR BEST FIRST STEP

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

It offers a brief, thoughtful conversation before any consultation is booked.

Whether you are planning ahead or reaching out because things feel overwhelming, you are welcome here.

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

Discovery calls allow families to briefly discuss their situation and determine whether Steady Start support would be helpful.

Start with a discovery call. Families do not book or pay for any planning or services before first speaking with Danielle about fit, needs, and timing.

WHAT TO EXPECT In Your Discovery Call

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

WHAT TO EXPECT In Your Discovery Call

A brief 15-minute conversation to talk about your situation, ask questions, and decide whether Steady Start support would be helpful

Schedule a Discovery Call

SLEEP PROTECTION = MENTAL HEALTH PROTECTION

SLEEP PROTECTION = MENTAL HEALTH PROTECTION

Preventive perinatal support for growing families

Explore the Steady Start approach

A simple starting point:

Danielle McLellan-Bujnak

Danielle McLellan-Bujnak, MSc, PMH-C, ICPD, IFEC-ATMHP

Why families seek support

Pressures & Stresses

Planning ahead:

When things feel overwhelming:

Both pathways belong here

The Steady Start approach

A prevention-oriented perinatal support model

The Steady Start Framework

Every family is on a journey of parenting. Nobody is behind!

Planning for Protection

Consultations & Check-Ins

Consultations & Check-Ins

Consultations & Check-Ins

Consultations & Check-Ins

Consultations & Check-Ins

Steady Support Consultation

Postpartum sleep support: Nightlight Overnight Care

Postpartum sleep support: Nightlight Overnight Care

Postpartum sleep support: Nightlight Overnight Care

Postpartum sleep support: Nightlight Overnight Care

Postpartum sleep support: Nightlight Overnight Care

Some journeys are more complex from the beginning.

Steady Start is designed to offer flexibility when families’ experiences call for additional support

Steady Start is designed to offer flexibility when families’ experiences call for additional support

Steady Start is designed to offer flexibility when families’ experiences call for additional support

Healthcare professionals

Steady Start is designed to offer flexibility when families’ experiences call for additional support

Steady Start is designed to offer flexibility when families’ experiences call for additional support

Meet Danielle

THE WHY

Postpartum Care & Education

About Danielle

About Danielle

Postpartum Care & Education

About Danielle

Mental Health Endorsements

Postpartum Care & Education

Postpartum Care & Education

Postpartum Care & Education

Postpartum Care & Education

Postpartum Care & Education

Importance of Sleep& Support

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Importance of Sleep& Support

Steady Start Framework

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Importance of Sleep& Support

Evidence Based Practice

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Reflective & Proactive Planning

Not sure where to begin?

THE DISCOVERY CALL IS YOUR BEST FIRST STEP

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

WHAT TO EXPECT In Your Discovery Call

THIS FIRST STEP IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM, CLEAR, AND LOW-PRESSURE

WHAT TO EXPECT In Your Discovery Call

Get Ready for steadystartperinatal.ca!

LOCATION: VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

PLEASE NOTE THAT STEADY START CONSULTATIONS PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE AND SUPPORTIVE PLANNING

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