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Childbirth Connection uses research, education and advocacy to foster women's access to informed decision making and evidence-based maternity care. In addition to making good use of available systematic reviews and other better-quality research, we commission or carry out systematic reviews and other research to fill important gaps in knowledge. With needed research in hand, we carry out public and professional education and foster improved practice. This section pulls together the systematic reviews and related documents that we have commissioned, carried out or collaborated in. Please see our pages about reviews on
Additional reviews and updates will be posted as they become available. Share this page! Your vote is appreciated. Most recent page update: 3/7/2006
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Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families. |
News and Features : Health Professionals
Congratulations to Judge Sonia Sotomayor on her confirmation as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor served on our board of directors in the 1980s when we were known as Maternity Center Association.
US Cochrane Center (USCC)/Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Apply Now: Hazel Corbin/Childbirth Connection Grant for Evidence-Based Midwifery Care
Help Transform Maternity Care!  Please join our efforts to make quality maternity care a top national priority. Your support will help make the transformation possible. View 2009 Supporter Roster  New Mothers Speak Out National Report Released The latest report in Childbirth Connection's Listening to Mothers series is now available. Get an eye-opening look at the reality of life as a mother of young children in the United States, based on national surveys conducted by Harris Interactive. Learn more, get the report Read the Wall Street Journal story and listen to the podcast Download Quick Facts (PDF) Why does the national U.S. c-section rate keep going up? Current research points to an optimal cesarean section rate of 5% to 10%, but 1 pregnant woman in 3 is giving birth by major surgery in the United States. Why the surge and is this safe? A new page - and a PDF handout for journalists, policy makers, students and others - answer these questions. Read more about the rising cesarean section rate New Content!
March/April 2009 evidence column is now available.
Features: National Quality Forum endorses consensus perinatal performance measures; systematic reviews on induction of labor, environmental tobacco smoke and fetal health, and HPV infection and cervical neoplasia Get the column Popular Pages
"I had a very easy pregnancy, labor & delivery. All were normal. I really enjoyed being pregnant and I love being a mother, but it is very hard and stressful."
Every woman has the right to freedom of movement during labor, unencumbered by tubes, wires, or other apparatus. She also has the right to give birth in the position of her choice.
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