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.

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