Raising the Bar | This guidance document outlines recommendations for ways health plans can raise the bar for maternal health equity and excellence as provider partners.
Increasing Access to High-Performing Maternity Services: Doula Support
Raising the Bar | Birth doulas provide emotional support, comfort measures, information, and advocacy for achieving the birthing person's goals during labor and birth.
Increasing Access to High-Performing Maternity Services: Midwifery Care
Raising the Bar | The midwifery model is based on investing the time needed to build a trusted relationship with the birthing person and help them build confidence.
Addressing Social Drivers of Maternal and Infant Health in Maternity Care Settings
Raising the Bar | This operational guidance provides core resources to enable maternity services to identify appropriate screening tools, incorporate them into systems and workflows, and identify and support the use of needed services.
Federal Legislation to Improve Maternal Health: Summary and Status
Bipartisan legislation was enacted in the 115th Congress to support maternal mortality review committees and increase the supply of maternal health providers in underserved areas.
Repealing the Essential Health Benefits Would be Devastating for Women’s Health
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...
Why the Affordable Care Act Matters for Women: Improving Care for Pregnant Women and New Parents
FACT SHEET | The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation, and includes benefits that are critically important for pregnant women and new parents. Thanks to the ACA, most plans now ensure coverage for the health services...
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 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: 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.
