Canadian Mothercraft Society
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The Canadian Mothercraft Society （Mothercraft） is a non-profit, charitable NGO that serves children ages 0 to 6, their families, their teachers, and their community.
Mothercraft's history dates back to 1907 when Dr. Truby King introduced "Mothercraft as an Educational Process" as an intervention strategy in New Zealand for the high rate of infant mortality.
Dr. King's "Twelve Essentials" （King, 1930） for the raising of healthy infants included:air and sunshine, water, food, clothing,
bathing, muscular exercise and sensory stimulation, warmth, regularity, cleanliness, mothering, management, and rest and sleep.
Dr. King's "Twelve Essentials" were thought to be revolutionary at the time.
In 1918, Dr. King campaigned on the need for the pre-parenting for parenting and the value of breast-feeding.
Dr. King was invited to establish a system of Mothercraft.
The underlying message of his program and of the Mothercraft manual was: "Build healthy babies rather than patch sick ones".
The Mothercraft system became known as the Mothercraft Movement as it spread to all corners of the British empire, including Australia, England, India, Jamaica, New Zealand, Scotland, and South Africa.
In 1925, His Majesty King George V knighted Dr. King.
Over the years, the Royal Family provided support, interest, and encouragement in the activities and accomplishments of Mothercraft.
In 1931, Barbara Mackenzie, a registered nurse and midwife trained in New Zealand came to Canada and married Irving Robertson, then Chairman of the Board of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
Together, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson established the Canadian Mothercraft Society.
Mrs. Robertson championed the cause of midwifery, founded the Mothercraft Well-Baby Nursing Training program, and operated the ...