BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL BABIES
COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION
Supporting healthier pregnancies through culturally-responsive care, connection, and stress management.
Birthing Beautiful Babies is a seven-week intervention designed to address stress and anxiety among pregnant Black women through culturally sensitive cognitive behavioral techniques.
We are proud to have supported a program recognizes that pregnancy-related stress does not occur in isolation. For Black women, experiences of racism, colorism, negative representations of Black women, self-esteem concerns, hair care, and pregnancy-related health concerns can intersect with the physical and emotional demands of pregnancy.
Contributions towards this project included:
Monitor program implementation and intervention activities
Support evaluation processes designed to assess changes in psychosocial and biological measures
Track participant outcomes related to stress, anxiety, worry, and distress
Support data collection across both self-reported and physiological measures
Insights Gained:
80 participants
11 focus groups
Birthing Beautiful Babies created a space where these experiences could be acknowledged, discussed, and addressed through practical self-management tools for stress and anxiety.
Following participation, women described:
Greater knowledge about panic attacks and stress
Increased ability to manage stressful situations
Greater confidence applying skills introduced during the intervention
Positive experiences with the supportive and open group environment
Appreciation for the program's emphasis on sisterhood and community
At baseline, 11 participants (13.75%) reported that it was
for them to worry about being treated
or viewed unfairly because of their race.
“very typical”
Explore the Research:
Birthing Beautiful Babies: A culturally tailored intervention for pregnant African American women.
Stress and pregnancy: Understanding the experiences of Black women.
Explore the research on PubMed Central
Culturally relevant approaches to maternal stress and health.