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

• Saving the Lives of Moms & Babies series of resources in collaboration with the National Birth Equity Collaborative
• Improving Our Maternity Care Now report with executive summary, recommendations, spotlights on success and more
• 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