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Pregnancy is an important time to partner with a health care team that fits your medical needs and values. At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, you have two options for receiving prenatal care for your low-risk pregnancy: regular one-to-one care (1:1) visits or group care through CenteringPregnancy®. We are always looking for innovations to improve your care, and CenteringPregnancy® is a nationally recognized care model.
With CenteringPregnancy®, you receive a private, brief pregnancy consultation while also participating in group sessions with your provider and a community of other pregnant people like yourself. Group sessions provide time to ask questions, share experiences, and explore emotions. Our Stanford Medicine Children’s Health obstetric providers guide the discussions, answer questions, and educate you on pregnancy, sometimes with other guest speakers.
If you choose CenteringPregnancy®, you are paired with five to 12 pregnant people/couples with similar due dates. You meet with this group 10 times throughout your pregnancy immediately after your brief pregnancy visit, for about 1.5 hours each session. This gives you the opportunity to spend more time with your provider to discuss pregnancy topics and prenatal education for a deeper understanding. You also have the chance to bond and learn from other expectant moms. In the final group session, we throw a birthday party for mothers and babies.
CenteringPregnancy® is part of the Centering Healthcare Institute, a nonprofit organization that works closely with health care providers like us across the nation and world to help transform health care using evidence-based care models.
CenteringPregnancy® participants report that they experience:
CenteringPregnancy® health care assessments include:
Should you want to forgo CenteringPregnancy® and proceed with traditional, routine 1:1 obstetric/pregnancy care, please make an appointment in your MyHealth account.
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