Group Prenatal Care, moms and their support team meet with a community health worker and a Certified Nurse Midwife for two-hour long sessions that replace traditional prenatal care appointments. These sessions occur throughout pregnancy and teach moms everything they need to know about pregnancy, birth, and beyond. Each session focuses on a different topic. WIN Network uses the CenteringPregnancy® Curriculum to guide the topics of each session, with some special enhancements. Overall, the curriculum aims to educate mothers about best practices when it comes to having and raising a baby.

How is the curriculum used in WIN Network?

The curriculum is covered at each of the ten sessions of group prenatal care. Although the curriculum covers what you need to know about having a baby, it can be flexible to your needs. For example, you may be concerned about nutrition during pregnancy and postpartum. You can either bring up your concerns during group or one-on-one with your community health worker. Your community health worker can then share more information from the curriculum on nutrition, including resources that you can access.

What topics does it cover?

The curriculum covers several topics that range from pregnancy to birth to postpartum. Some of the topics covered include breastfeeding, birth plans, planning pediatric care, newborn safety, nutrition, and prenatal testing.

Why use the curriculum?

The CenteringPregnancy® curriculum improves pregnancy outcomes for both moms and babies, especially as it combats racial inequalities. The curriculum, when combined with group prenatal care and community health workers, lowers the chances that a mother will go into labor early or that their baby will be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).