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...
The Hormonal Cascade of Childbearing
FACT SHEET | Hormonal physiology of childbearing involves complex interconnected beneficial processes. This is a fact sheet based on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report.
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care Full Set of Fact Sheets
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...
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care Full Recommendations
This is a set of detailed recommendations based on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care
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.
The Rights of Childbearing Women
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.
Pathway to a Healthy Birth: How to Help Your Hormones Do Their Wonderful Work
FACT SHEET | Find out how you can help your birth hormones do their wonderful work for you and your baby.
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care Executive Summary
This is the executive summary for the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.
Outline: Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care
This is the full outline for the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care (2015)
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...
Expecting Better: Updates to the Third Edition
FACT SHEET | In just three months since the publication of Expecting Better, states have continued to make progress for working families. This update captures these essential and much-needed developments.
Cesarean Prevention Recommendations from Obstetric Leaders: What Pregnant Women Need to Know
To help pregnant women prepare to talk with their maternity care providers and make good care decisions, this guide summarizes the new recommendations.
Amicus Brief: Peggy Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
The amici argue that denying pregnant workers job modifications that are granted to others similar in their ability or inability violates the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and contravenes sound health, economic and social policy.
Listening to Mothers: The Experiences of Expecting and New Mothers in the Workplace
DATA BRIEF | Holding a job is the new normal for pregnant women in the United States, but many encounter significant barriers to success on the job and at home, according to a survey of new and expecting mothers.
Cochrane Review: Continuous Support for Women during Chilbirth (2013)
This 2013 systematic review of the research literature concludes that all women should have continuous support during labor.
Listening to Mothers III: New Mothers Speak Out Major Findings (2013)
REPORT | This report follows up with 1,072 women who participated in the Pregnancy and Birth survey. This document summarizes major findings from the survey.
Listening to Mothers III: New Mothers Speak Out (2013)
REPORT | This report follows up with 1,072 women who participated in the 2012-2013 Listening to Mothers III Pregnancy and Birth survey.
Listening to Mothers III: Pregnancy and Birth Major Findings (2013)
REPORT | This report explores 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. Major survey findings show that a medically...
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: Methodology (2013)
METHODOLOGY | 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. This is the survey methodology.