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, intrapartum and postpartuml care to low-risk 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 prenatal care in the Centering Pregnancy model, where education and support occurs with a group of 8-10 women. They can also choose to receive care one-on-one with the midwives and family physicians. SCBP also offers each woman the support of a trained doula during labour and birth. In total our doulas speak a total of 18 languages (Cantonese, Punjabi, Hindi, Spanish, French, Japanese, etc) and can provide translation in labour for women in their first language. SCBP also runs a drop in breastfeeding / postpartum clinics with our nurse, who also attends the Centering Pregnancy groups.

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