REPORT | This series connects the dots between how different socioeconomic factors affect maternal and infant health, the outsize impact these factors have on BIPOC communities, and recommendations to effect the change we need to ensure all moms and babies thrive.
Immigrant Moms and Babies Are Being Denied Health Care
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: Many immigrants are denied access to health care, leaving moms and babies at risk.
Higher Temperatures Hurt Moms and Babies
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: Our climate is getting hotter and it risks the health of moms and babies.
Paid Leave Is Essential for Healthy Moms and Babies
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: The lack of national paid leave compromises the health and well-being of pregnant people and their infants.
Intimate Partner Violence Endangers Pregnant People and Their Infants
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: Violence against pregnant people inflicts lasting harm on them and their babies.
Homelessness Hurts Moms And Babies
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: The homelessness crisis is worsening and imperils pregnant people and their infants.
Adressing the Maternal Health Crisis
Oral Testimony of Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH, Director for Maternal Health at the National Partnership for Women & Families before the U.S. House of Representatives House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related...
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Four Care Models Federal Policymakers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies
ISSUE BRIEF | Federal policymakers can play an essential role in advancing these successful, high-value models of maternity care.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Recommendations for Congress
RECOMMENDATIONS | Congress can play a pivotal role in addressing the maternal health crisis and supporting evidence-based models that improve the health of mothers and infants — particularly in communities that are suffering from deep structural inequities.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Four Care Models State Policymakers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies
RECOMMENDATIONS | Research shows that specific care models in use today lead to demonstrably higher quality care and improved outcomes. We just have to take action to make them readily and widely available.
Executive Summary: Improving Our Maternity Care Now
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | We have identified three reliably high-quality forms of maternal and newborn care, as well as one promising, emerging model.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now
REPORT | Four care models decisionmakers must implement for healthier moms and babies
Spotlight on Success: Commonsense Childbirth
CASE STUDY | An independent evaluation of 256 Commonsense Childbirth clients found that their approach to care greatly reduced, and even eliminated, inequities that pervade our standard approach to maternity care.
Maternity Care in the United States: We Can-And Must-Do Better
ISSUE BRIEF | Quality maternity Care is a foundation of our nation's health. Poor maternal and newborn health outcomes signal that major improvements are overdue.
Maternal Health and Abortion Restrictions:How Lack of Access to Quality Care is Harming Black Women
ISSUE BRIEF | As a result of many factors, including systemic racism, Black women disproportionately face geographic, transportation, infrastructure and economic barriers to obtaining abortion care, and are more likely to be harmed by abortion bans. This issue brief...
American Indian and Alaska Native Women’s Maternal Health: Addressing the Crisis
American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women are experiencing an alarming rate of maternal mortality: they are three to four times more likely than white women to die of complications related to pregnancy and/or childbirth.
A Blueprint for Improving Maternity Care in the United States: What Policymakers Can Do
FACT SHEET | In maternity care, ample opportunities exist to change the way care is provided to better serve women and babies.
The Best Mother’s Day Gifts From Congress: Policies Mothers Need to Thrive
FACT SHEET | While our country claims to value mothers and families, our policies are making childbirth more dangerous, pushing working moms out of the labor force, perpetuating a punishing gender wage gap and blocking people from deciding when and if to become a...
Improving Maternal Health Outcomes Requires Bold Congressional Action
FACT SHEET | The United States is currently experiencing a maternal health crisis. Bold legislation is required to significantly improve outcomes and save women’s lives.
Tackling Maternal Health Disparities: A Look at Four Local Organizations with Innovative Approaches
ISSUE BRIEF | Community-based maternal care models can help to narrow the disparities in maternal health outcomes by providing expanded prenatal, childbirth and postpartum support that is respectful and culturally relevant to at-risk women.
