A RCT of CenteringPregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Medical complications of pregnancy that would preclude prenatal care provision by nurse practitioners or participation in group care
• •* Pregestational diabetes,
• •* Severe chronic hypertension requiring medication,
• •* Morbid Obesity with BMI \>49.99
• •* Renal disease with baseline proteinuria \>1g/24 hours
• •* Any disease requiring chronic immunosuppression (SLE, solid organ transplant)
• •* Active pulmonary tuberculosis
• •* Sickle cell anemia
• •* Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
• •* Other medical conditions that would exclude women from group care at the discretion of the PI
• •2. Pregnancy complications that would preclude prenatal care provision by nurse practitioners or participation in group care
• •* Multiple gestation
• •* Lethal fetal anomalies
• •* Other pregnancy complications that would exclude women from group care at the discretion of the PI
• •3. Social and behavioral complications of pregnancy which would preclude prenatal care provision by nurse practitioners or participation in group care
• •* Current incarceration
• •* Severe psychiatric illness