Maternity Care
The National Partnership works to improve the quality and value of maternity care through consumer engagement and health system transformation.
Reports and Issue Briefs
- Improving Our Maternity Care Now report with executive summary, recommendations, spotlights on success and mroe
- Maternity Care in the United States: We Can — and Must — Do Better
- Listening to Mothers survey series with related resources, including the recent Listening to Mothers in California survey
- Black Women's Maternal Health: A Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Persistent and Dire Health Disparities
- American Indian and Alaska Native Women’s Maternal Health: Addressing the Crisis
- Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing
- Overdue: Medicaid and Private Insurance Coverage of Doula Care to Strengthen Maternal and Infant Health
- Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care, report and related resources
- 2020 Vision for a High-Quality, High-Value Maternity Care System Maternity Care System
- The Cost of Having a Baby in the United States (full report | executive summary)
- Maternity Care and Liability: Pressing Problems, Substantive Solutions, report and related resources
- Evidence-Based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve
- Cesarean Birth Resources
Fact Sheets
- Snapshot: Black Maternal Health in the United States
- Cesarean Section Trends in the United States: 1989-2015
- Why is the U.S. Cesarean Section Rate So High?
- Delivering High-Quality, High-Value Care to Childbearing Women and Babies: Policymakers Can Make a Difference
- The Priority of Developing and Implementing CAHPS Maternity Care Facility, Clinician, and Health Plan Surveys
Other
- Evidence-based, woman-friendly information on pregnancy, childbirth and maternity care: ChildbirthConnection.org, @childbirth, facebook.com/ChildbirthConnection
- Tracker: Federal Legislation to Improve Maternal Health: Summary and Status
Additional Resources
- Past as Present: America’s Sordid History of Medical Reproductive Abuse and Experimentation (October 2020)
- Executive Summary: Improving Our Maternity Care Now (September 2020)
- Improving Our Maternity Care Now (September 2020)