Black Centering Group Prenatal Care
A Black community space to celebrate your journey with those with similar due dates. Scheduled time for private check ins with your midwife regarding clinical care & group space for shared wisdom while navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.
What is Centering Pregnancy?
CenteringPregnancy is a type of group prenatal care with evidence for reducing the incidence of pregnancy complications such as preterm birth, increasing breastfeeding rates, better prenatal knowledge, greater readiness for labor and delivery, and higher satisfaction with prenatal care services compared to individual care models. For example Instead of a 10-15 minute 1:1 visit with a provider, you will have 2 hours of group care with one midwife throughout your whole pregnancy. The visit will start out with private time before the group starts. For private items that require a 1:1 visit that can be scheduled as an additional visit with your midwife or for more complex care with a doctor from our team.
So What is Black Centering Midwifery Led- Group Prenatal Care then?
Great Question! Though Centering meets many of our needs, we also know that same race and cultural care can improve patients' satisfaction with care and potentially health care outcomes for baby and their parent. For this reason, we are proud to launching San Francisco General Hospital's first ever Black Centering pregnancy community, led by Black folx for Black Folx. There will be two facilitators to lead the group, a midwife and a co facilitator, either a medical assistant, nurse, or community liaison. We have guest experts at different sessions when covering topics like newborn care, breastfeeding etc. This group will consist of people with due dates close to yours! Creating a Black space allows us to center our experiences.