STEP-COVID: A Program for Pregnant Women During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

The program is offered by two facilitators to groups of three to six women, online in a synchronous mode. The intervention is divided into two phases, each including three sessions. The first 3 sessions aim to explore how the participants feel, to better understand what makes them feel this way, to allow them to exchange with other people who are going through similar experiences, and to support the ability to manage stress and more unpleasant emotions. The following three sessions aim to enable participants to refocus on their experience of pregnancy and motherhood by giving them the opportunity to reflect upon how they wish to be as mothers, upon how their personal history influences their experience of pregnancy and motherhood, upon the moments that, as mothers, might be the most pleasant and those that will require more adaptations, and upon identifying the needs they have or expect to have after childbirth as well as the resources available to them to meet these needs.