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For starters, it's free, quick and easy! We respect your privacy and never share your information with anyone, ever. To download one of our PDFs, which are rich in evidence-based maternity care information, you need to be registered and logged in. We keep your information private and never share it with anyone. PDFs include our cesarean booklet What Every Pregnant Woman Needs To Know About Cesarean Section, Questions to Ask Your Caregiver, all of the chapters in A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, and many more. Plus, we have a few enhancements, like your own My Connection where you can bookmark your favorite pages. You can also sign up for emails from us on the latest issues in maternity care and fundraising events and opportunities.

Registered User Benefits

  • PDFS: Access to all of our PDFs, which contain in-depth features and tools for select topics including VBAC, cesarean section, and pelvic floor health, as well as all 50 of the free chapters in A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, and the free PDF version of our booklet, What Every Pregnant Women Needs to Know About Cesarean Section.
  • My Connection: A personalized website experience via My Connection, which lets you bookmark your favorite, most useful Childbirth Connection pages to easily send to your friends or refer to quickly.
  • Email Alerts: Optional subscriptions to email alerts and special Childbirth Connection offers.

Optional Email Subscriptions

  • Childbirth Connection Updates: The latest updates on childbirthconnction.org as well as chances to participate in special events and fundraising opportunities. This includes "Alerts & Responses," Childbirth Connection's responses to new studies and headlines about today's maternity care options, and advice to women on how to determine the best maternity care.
  • Evidence Columns: Childbirth Connection's staff authors quarterly articles that cover the latest research on maternal, newborn and women's health. The articles are co-published in JOGNN and the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health.


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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.