Online Centering Corona for Eritrean pregnant women and mothers

Cause Within the Eritrean community, midwives see that incorrect information about corona is being shared. This leads to fear and evasion of care, women no longer dare to give birth in the hospital or they avoid checks with their midwife. At CenteringPregnancy, individual contact moments with the midwife are replaced by group meetings to exchange ideas and share experiences in the field of pregnancy, childbirth and maternity care. Since COVID-19, physical group meetings have stopped and online group meetings have started; CenteringOnline. Goal The aim of this project is to offer CenteringOnline for Eritrean pregnant women, to give these women access to the correct information about corona and pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Results There is an information film and an information sheet developed for Eritrean pregnant women. In addition, a number of CenteringOnline meetings were organized with Eritrean pregnant women. The meetings ensured solidarity between the women and that the women were well informed. The Eritrean pregnant women and midwives were satisfied with CenteringOnline meetings, with the film and the fact sheet. We conducted an interview with Anne Bedaux in which we told more about Online Centering. Anne is an experienced midwife and has run the Online Centering groups.