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 | 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...

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...

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...

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.