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The South Community Birth Program (SCBP)
provides a full range of primary maternity care services
in the community-based setting of the South Community Health
Office. Care is provided in a collaborative, inter-disciplinary
manner where family physicians, midwives, community health
nurses and doulas work as a team to offer prenatal, birth
and postpartum care to childbearing women. This new model
of care's goal is to return pregnancy and birth back to
a community-based, peer-supported, primary care experience.
SCBP is committed to achieving better outcomes from pregnancies,
such as increased satisfaction in the birthing experience,
increased responsibility for self-care among women, reduced
hospital length of stay, reduced caesarean section rate,
improved breastfeeding outcomes, and a reduction in the
number of low-birth weight babies. Family physicians and
midwives share the primary care of women throughout their
pregnancy and birth. Women have the option of receiving
group prenatal care in the Centering Pregnancy model, where
medical care, education and support occurs in a group of
10 women and their partners, all due to give birth in the
same month. Women can also choose to receive their prenatal
care one-on-one with a midwife or family physician. The
SCBP runs a breastfeeding / postpartum clinic twice a week
with our nurse, who also attends the Centering Pregnancy
groups with a physician or midwife. SCBP also offers each
woman the support of a trained doula during labour and birth.
In total our doulas speak a total of 14 languages (Punjabi,
Hindi, Spanish, French, Tagalog, Urdu, Japanese, etc) and
can provide translation in labour for women in their first
language.
See our website for more
information on who we are.
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