FACT SHEET | This fact sheet highlights key benefits of the spontaneous, physiologic onset of labor at term, including fully experiencing beneficial hormonal actions of late pregnancy and early labor, and identifies practices that support hormonal physiology when...

FACT SHEET | The scientific literature on the hormonal physiology of childbearing reveals core themes and principles. These themes and principles reflect profound interconnections at many levels and over time. This fact sheet is based on the Hormonal Physiology of...

FACT SHEET | Hormonal physiology of childbearing involves complex interconnected beneficial processes. This is a fact sheet based on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report.

FACT SHEETS | These fact sheets cover the following topics: The Hormonal Cascade of Childbearing, Core Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing Principles, Physiologic (Spontaneous) Onset of Labor versus Scheduled Birth, Low-Stress Birthing Environments, Non-Pharmacologic...

This is a set of detailed recommendations based on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.

ABSTRACT & RECOMMENDATIONS | This is the abstract and topline recommendations to Promote, Support, and Protect Physiologic Childbearing for the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.

This statement outlines a set of basic maternity rights that Childbirth Connection has identified and promotes for all childbearing women. It applies widely accepted human rights to the specific situation of maternity care.

FACT SHEET | Find out how you can help your birth hormones do their wonderful work for you and your baby.

This is the executive summary for the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.

This is the full outline for the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.

This report finds that the country’s maternity care system is missing opportunities to provide better care and use resources more wisely by routinely intervening in labor and delivery in ways that interfere with, instead of promoting, supporting and protecting, innate...

This 2013 systematic review of the research literature concludes that all women should have continuous support during labor.

REPORT | This report follows up with 1,072 women who participated in the Pregnancy and Birth survey. This document summarizes major findings from the survey.

REPORT | This report follows up with 1,072 women who participated in the 2012-2013 Listening to Mothers III Pregnancy and Birth survey.

METHODOLOGY | This report explore women's experiences from before pregnancy through the months after birth. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the survey polled 2,400 women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals from 2011 to 2012. This is the survey methodology.

This report explores women's experiences from before pregnancy through the months after birth. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the survey polled 2,400 women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals from 2011 to 2012. Major survey findings show that a medically...

This report follows up with 1,072 women who participated in the Listening to Mothers III: Pregnancy and Birth survey. This is the survey instrument used for New Mothers Speak Out.

This report explore women's experiences from before pregnancy through the months after birth. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the survey polled 2,400 women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals from 2011 to 2012. This is the survey instrument.

These data briefs provide an in-depth look at highly important topics covered by Listening to Mothers III, a report that surveyed women's experiences from before pregnancy through the months after birth. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the survey polled 2,400...