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.
Overdue: Insurance Coverage of Doula Care Infographic
INFOGRAPHIC | Benefits of continuous labor support by a doula
Listening to Black Mothers in California
ISSUBE BRIEF | Highlights results from Black women survey respondents. It underscores many social and economic issues affecting pregnant and parenting Black women, including their mental health, experiences with discrimination, postpartum experience and issues related...
Listening to Latina Mothers In California
ISSUE BRIEF | This issue brief highlights results from Latina survey respondents, underscoring social and economic issues affecting pregnant and parenting Latinas, including their mental health, experiences with discrimination, postpartum experience and issues related...
Listening to Asian and Pacific Islander Mothers in California
This issue brief highlights results from Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women survey respondents. It underscores many social and economic issues affecting pregnant and parenting API women, including their mental health, experiences with discrimination, postpartum...
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 6
REPORT | Chapter 6: Conduct Priority Research to Advance the Science of Physiologic Childbearing and Its Impact on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 5
REPORT | Chapter 5: Foster an Optimal Maternity Care Workforce Composition and Distribution
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 4
REPORT | Chapter 4: Transition to Interprofessional Education That Supports Team-Based Care for Maternity Care Professionals
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 3
REPORT | Chapter 3: Meaningfully Engage All Childbearing Women and Families
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 2
REPORT | Chapter 2: Advance Performance Measurement for High-Value Maternity Care
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 1
REPORT | Chapter 1: Improve Maternity Care Through Innovative Delivery and Payment Systems and Quality Improvement Initiatives
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing
REPORT | This Blueprint identifies six widely accepted improvement strategies to transform maternity care and a series of specific recommendations within each strategy.
Maternity Snapshot: Black Maternal Health
FACT SHEET | Black women in the United States experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of maternal death related to pregnancy or childbirth.
Continuous Support for Women During Childbirth: 2017 Cochrane Review Update Key Takeaways
Key takeaways from a popular Cochrane systematic review that summarizes the best available studies about the effects of continuous support on laboring women and their newborns.
New Professional Recommendations to Limit Labor and Birth Interventions: What Pregnant Women Need to Know
FACT SHEET | Summary of ACOG's recommendations that maternity care providers restrict use of many common labor and birth interventions that offer limited or uncertain benefit to low-risk women.
Quick Facts about Labor Induction
FACT SHEET | any pregnant women in the United States experience medical induction of labor. This fact sheet reviews some key points about labor induction.
Why Is the C-Section Rate So High?
FACT SHEET | When first measured in 1965, the national U.S. cesarean birth rate was 4.5%. However, the national cesarean rate has increased seven-fold.
