07/30/2026
Our team is so happy to finally be able to introduce our partnership with Ochsner Baptist on a pilot program called OB-CARES: Cultivating Awareness, Resources, and Empathy in Obstetrics.
We’ve been steadily building this program from the ground up since last October, when we met with the Maternal Fetal Medicine team for the first time. It became so apparent to us that there’s a huge gap in taking care of the people who care for so many in our community at the hardest point in their lives.
Our mission is to create a space for reflection, connection, processing, and practical tools so obstetric providers can continue doing this meaningful work without carrying the emotional weight of it alone.
Over the next year, we will work directly with the MFM faculty and resident physicians- high risk obstetricians who see the toughest cases and have too many unexpected and adverse outcomes- to help ease the burden of the second victim experiences they’re a part of on a regular basis. Data will be gathered throughout the year that will (hopefully) be published in a paper with Ochsner on the impact that a formal, structured mental health program can have on preventing burnout and vicarious trauma in obstetrics.
We are honored to be doing this work with this group of providers. They are superheroes in our eyes! Big thank you to their team for entrusting us with their care.
-Ashley, Maria, and Carley
Perinatal, counseling, birth, birth trauma, ptsd, postpartum, New Orleans
