Poster can be found in location 53.

During the Delta wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, our team in Alberta, Canada engaged with pregnant and nursing persons from intimate group discussions to large public events. We intended to create safe spaces for pregnant persons and their families to ask questions and seek answers to their health concerns regarding COVID-19 infection during pregnancy, and preventative measures like vaccination, masking, social distancing and hygiene.  Pregnant persons experience decisional conflict regarding many aspects of their health during pregnancy, like vaccines or medications, even if aware of safety or efficacy. During one of our sessions, a pregnant person, shared with us how torn and scared she felt from either falling sick from COVID-19 infection or vaccination. She asked if we had seen anyone “like me” get the COVID-19 vaccine and deliver a healthy baby. The desire to hear from someone “like me” is a theme that continues to come up in our work. Patient narratives are critical for informing and delivering more person-centred care to support complex decision making. Our patient partners have generously shared their testimonials about their lived-experience making vaccination in pregnancy decisions. These powerful testimonials are part of a multimodal intervention designed to support pregnant individuals and their families in their vaccine decision-making journey and healthcare provider training to improve vaccine communication during pregnancy, with the ultimate goal to improve maternal, fetal and infant health outcomes. We will present the voices of our patients through a series of videos and written testimonials. Although testimonials center on making vaccination decisions, their insights are applicable to other complex health decision-making and are important for providers to hear and internalize.