For Sammie Gallaway, being pregnant at 21 was terrifying. She was overjoyed about the life growing inside her but anxious that she wouldn't know what to do.
"At first I was excited, and then I was worried. I thought, 'How will I do this? What if I'm not a good mom? What if I don't know what to do because this is my first child?'" she said. "Then, I realized that everyone goes through that. Even if you are having a second baby, it's still some of the same questions."
To help ease her fears, Gallaway opted to do her maternity care in a group setting. Each month, she and nine others met at the Mountain Area Health Education Centeron Hendersonville Road for the Centering Pregnancy program. There, in a warm, multicolored conference room, a doctor monitored each participant's weight and development, and the women shared their hopes and fears for the future.
[For more of this story, written by Beth Walton, go to http://www.citizen-times.com/s...care-model/30300863/]
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