The Supporting Pregnancy Food and Nutrition Security (SPooNS) project is about exploring how living in neighbourhoods with higher levels of environmental, economic and social challenges affects pregnancy health experiences, pregnancy food security and nutrition, and pregnancy outcomes. The initial phases of the project were carried out in Denmark, but we are now working to set up parallel studies using similar methods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; in Veracruz, Mexico; and possibly in Melbourne, Australia.
If you're currently pregnant and/or you've been pregnant in the last 3 years, or if you're the partner of someone who is pregnant and/or has given birth in the last 3 years, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
If any of these apply to you and you and you live in Hamilton, Montreal, Veracruz, or anywhere in Denmark and you haven't already had a chance to respond to our survey, please check back here soon for a link (we're waiting for institutional approval for the next phases of our work). If you've already responded to the Danish survey but are interested in being interviewed or just want to know more about our research, please send us an email.
VISION
Our vision is to build community, engagement, and mutual support between pregnant people/new mothers, by bringing them together to exchange ideas and to collectively advocate for what is most needed in their neighbourhoods, households, and lives. Our focus is on pregnant people living with food insecurity and other forms of vulnerability in Denmark's most marginalized neighborhoods, starting with Gellerup, Aarhus.
"We believe that SPooNS is examining an intriguing and undiscovered phenomenon needs to be explored"
- A SPooNS collaborater and stakeholder
"It sometimes really can be difficult to make ends meet financially in our household, but my neighbour does not experience the same"
- A SPooNS informant living in Gellerup