Parenthood resources
Financial to-dos for when you’re planning, pregnant and parents.
Vancity and Brood are here to support you with the tools, advice and care you need for all stages of family planning — from pre-conception to parenthood and beyond.
Pre-conception
Pregnancy & birth
After birth
Join the Wealthy Beginnings course.
- Free for families in the pre-conception stage
- Explore the financial realities of trying to grow your family
- Understand costs of IVF, egg-freezing, adoption, surrogacy and mental health support
- More on financial grants and assistance like crowdfunding
Finance your fertility journey.
- Financial support for fertility and conception related expenses
- Get flexible options for a loan or a line of credit to cover costs of treatments, adoption or surrogacy
- Borrow from $100 to $50,000 for big immediate expenses or for later
Budget for unplanned costs of family planning.
- Trying to have a baby can affect your lifestyle and your finances
- Use our free budgeting tool to plan for the costs of treatments, tests & emergencies while managing your current expenses
- Track your progress at the end of each month and year
Get human advice that makes you financially ready.
- Those with an advice plan have a net worth 2.7x greater than those who don’t^
- Grow your wealth with an action plan that understands your situation and your relationship with money
- Get investment ideas and strategies from advisors who get it
Articles on family planning & finances.
¤ Source: Strategic Business Insights MacroMonitor 2020-2021 Report