Continuous Support for Women During Childbirth: 2017 Cochrane Review Update Key Takeaways
Key takeaways from a popular Cochrane systematic review that summarizes the best available studies about the effects of continuous support on laboring women and their newborns.
New Professional Recommendations to Limit Labor and Birth Interventions: What Pregnant Women Need to Know
FACT SHEET | Summary of ACOG's recommendations that maternity care providers restrict use of many common labor and birth interventions that offer limited or uncertain benefit to low-risk women.
Women’s Community Letter to Congress on the Affordable Care Act (March 2017)
LETTER | We, the undersigned organizations, share a commitment to advancing the health and economic security of women and their families. We are writing to express our opposition to repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and defunding Planned Parenthood.
Quick Facts about Labor Induction
FACT SHEET | any pregnant women in the United States experience medical induction of labor. This fact sheet reviews some key points about labor induction.
Why Is the C-Section Rate So High?
FACT SHEET | When first measured in 1965, the national U.S. cesarean birth rate was 4.5%. However, the national cesarean rate has increased seven-fold.
Pathway to a Healthy Birth: Poster for Clinicians
POSTER | How Clinicians Can Support Beneficial Hormonal Action in Childbirth
Pathway to a Healthy Birth: Poster for Women
POSTER | Helping Your Hormones Do Their Most Wonderful Work.
Understanding the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) Fact Sheet (April 2016)
FACT SHEET | The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is intended to accelerate the transition to a health care system that rewards quality and value, rather than volume, and help ensure that patients experience better care and improved health outcomes.
Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act Fact Sheet (2016)
FACT SHEET | This three-page fact sheet reviews the Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act.
What to Ask…When Visiting a Hospital Maternity Ward
What to Ask…A Midwife or Other Care Provider Who May Attend Your Home Birth
What to Ask…A Doula Who May Provide Continuous Labor Support
We encourage you to meet and talk with different doulas, and to print and bring this list of questions.
What Every Pregnant Woman Needs to Know About Cesarean Section
FAQ | You might wonder if a C-section is easier or safer than vaginal birth. It’s important to get the facts and understand your options, so you can be prepared to make the best decisions for you and your baby.
The Priority of Developing and Implementing CAHPS Maternity Care Facility, Clinician, and Health Plan Surveys
FACT SHEET | This document identifies limitations in applying the original generic surveys to maternity care and the population of childbearing women and newborns.
Pathway to a Healthy Birth: Poster for Clinicians (full bleed)
INFOGRAPHIC | A roadmap to how clinicians can support beneficial hormonal action in childbirth.
Early Skin-to-Skin Contact Between Mothers and Newborns
FACT SHEET | This fact sheet summarizes the beneficial hormone actions of mother-newborn skin-to-skin contact (SSC), the benefits of SSC through the lens of hormonal physiology, and practices that support beneficial hormonal physiology when separation of mother and...
Fact Sheet: Physiologic Birth versus Cesarean Section
FACT SHEET | The following summarizes the beneficial hormone actions of childbearing that is physiologic (conforming to healthy biologic processes), the likely clinical benefits of physiologic birth through the lens of hormonal physiology, and practices that may...
Non-Pharmacologic Pain Management versus Epidural Analgesia
FACT SHEET | This fact sheet summarizes the beneficial hormone actions of physiologic childbearing (conforming to healthy biologic processes), the hormonal benefits of non-pharmacologic pain management, and practices that support beneficial hormonal physiology when...
Low-Stress Birthing Environments
FACT SHEET | . This fact sheet summarizes the beneficial hormone actions of eustress, the benefits of lowering stress in the birthing environment through the lens of hormonal physiology, and practices that support beneficial hormonal physiology in conditions of...
