The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation, but Republicans in Congress are dead set on rolling back key provisions that ensure women’s access to necessary health care services, such as maternity care. They are trading...
What to Ask…When Visiting a Birth Center
What to Ask…A Physician Who May Provide Your Maternity Care
What to Ask…A Midwife Who May Provide Your Maternity Care
Delivering High-Quality, High-Value Care to Childbearing Women and Babies: Policymakers Can Make a Difference
This is fact sheet for policymakers is based on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report.
Camino hacia un parto saludable: Como ayudar a tus hormonas a realizar su maravilloso trabajo
This is the Spanish language version of Pathway to a Healthy Birth: How to Help Your Hormones Do Their Wonderful Work
Listening to Mothers III: New Mothers Speak Out Methodology (2013)
This report follows up with 1,072 women who participated in the Listening to Mothers III: Pregnancy and Birth survey. This is the survey methodology.
Listening to Mothers III: Data Briefs (2013)
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. These data briefs provide an in-depth look at highly...
Listening to Mothers II: Weighting (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005. This document summarizes how data were weighted by key demographic variables to more accurately reflect the...
Listening to Mothers II: Survey Instrument (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005. This is the survey instrument.
Listening to Mothers II: Methodology (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005. This is the survey methodology.
Listening to Mothers II: Executive Summary (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005. This is the Executive Summary.
Listening to Mothers: Report of the First National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences (2002) Executive Summary
Listening to Mothers I was the first opportunity for women in the U.S. to describe at the national level their maternity experiences and assessment of those experiences. This is the Executive Summary.
Listening to Mothers: Report of the First National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences (2002)
Listening to Mothers I was the first opportunity for women in the U.S. to describe at the national level their maternity experiences and assessment of those experiences. The results have given health professionals, policy makers and mothers themselves a new level of...
Listening to Mothers II: New Mothers Speak Out (2008)
Report of National Surveys of Women’s Childbearing Experiences Conducted October – December 2012 and January – April 2013
Cesarean Birth Trends 1989-2015
The preliminary national cesarean rate for 2014 is 32.2 percent of all births. This is a slight drop from the national peak of 32.9 percent in 2009.
Delivering High-Quality, High-Value Care to Childbearing Women and Babies: Policymakers Can Make a Difference
Policymakers can help promote safe, healthy childbirth experiences for women and babies in the United States with wiser use of resources.
Our Communities Hold the Solutions
REPORT | The importance of full-spectrum doulas to reproductive health and justice
Our Communities Hold the Solutions – Recommendations for Congress
BRIEF | Full-spectrum doulas are more important than ever in the post-Roe landscape.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Doula Support
REPORT | This report outlines the evidence that supports the unique value of doula support across different communities, the safety and effectiveness of doula support in improving maternal and infant outcomes, the interest of birthing women and people in use of doula...
