Bright Beginnings Prenatal Group: Summary of Topics and Content

Session Topic Content
1 The Story of the Pregnancy
  • Group guidelines
  • The story of the pregnancy
  • Centering exercise – breathing
  • Goals for participating in Bright Beginnings
2 Physical Changes
  • Centering exercise – physical awareness
  • Physical changes in pregnancy
  • Massage – self face massage, hand massage
  • Taking pictures
3 Feelings about the Pregnancy
  • Centering exercise – Letting tension go
  • The joys and challenges of pregnancy
  • Affirmations
4

Getting to Know Your Baby
  • Using affirmations in centering exercise
  • Identify what they know about their babies and how
  • What do they want their babies to know about them, their families, and life
  • Writing letter to baby
5

Reactions to the Pregnancy

 Centering exercise (select one)

  • View of pregnancy in culture/social group
  • View of this pregnancy by significant others
  • Writing about childhood experience to share with baby
6

Social Support

 Centering exercise (select one)

  • Identify and draw social support map
  • Role play ways to ask for or decline support
  • Celebration
  • Questionnaire