- Pathway to a Healthy Birth: How to Help Your Hormones Do Their Wonderful Work explains how your hormones support you and your baby throughout birth and breastfeeding — and how to avoid interventions that can interfere with your body’s natural processes.
- Also available en Español: Camino Hacia un Parto Saludable
- Check out and share this infographic (also available in Japanese)
- Download and print a poster version (also available in Japanese)
- What Every Pregnant Woman Needs To Know About Cesarean Section is based on a thorough review of evidence on C-section and addresses common questions and concerns about cesarean birth.
- New Professional Recommendations to Limit Labor and Birth Interventions: What Pregnant Women Need to Know summarizes 2017 recommednations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on how to restrict use of many common labor and birth interventions that offer limited or uncertain benefit to low-risk women.
- Cesarean Prevention Recommendations from Obstetric Leaders: What Pregnant Women Need to Know summarizes 2014 recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine that emphasize ensuring that your body is ready for labor, being patient with labor and having good support during labor to prevent unnecessary C-section.
- Why is the C-section Rate So High? explains the underlying reasons for the high cesarean birth rate in the United States and addresses some common myths.
- Cesarean Section Trends in the United States: 1989-2014 details rates for all C-section, primary C-section and vaginal birth after C-section (VBAC).
- Comfort in Labor: How You Can Help Yourself to a Normal Satisfying Childbirth, by expert Penny Simkin, offers information and direction for using comfort measures to cope with labor pain.
- This infographic explains the benefits of doula care for women and the health care system.
- This infographic that shares five ways to encourage a healthy, satisfying pregnancy and birth.
- This fact sheet of tables that summarize labor pain relief options.
