Thank you for visiting these important resources - there are many sites here that can give you much insight and awareness to what is going on everywhere from a state to a national level with pregnancy and birth as well as many sites where you can add in your help or experience's to make a difference. We hope this portion of our site is very much used! Check back often as new links will be added every few days.

Related Web Sites

• CIMS - Coalition For Improving Maternity Services - The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) is a coalition of individuals and national organizations with concern for the care and well-being of mothers, babies, and families. Our mission is to promote a wellness model of maternity care that will improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. This evidence-based mother-, baby-, and family-friendly model focuses on prevention and wellness as the alternatives to high-cost screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs
• The Birth Survey -

  The Birth Survey is structured around the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) evidence-based 10 Steps to Mother-Friendly Care and other quality of care indicators. The creation of The Birth Survey has been inspired by Childbirth Connection's Listening to Mothers Survey (Harris Interactive, October 2002) and the A-CAHPS (Ambulatory Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) program and surveys.

• Georgia Friends of Midwives

• The Big Push For Midwives - The Big Push for Midwives Campaign is a national campaign to help mothers and families gain increased access to out-of-hospital maternity care and the Certified Professional Midwives who are specially trained to provide it

• .BOLD - Birth On Labor Day - BOLD is a global arts-based movement inspiring communities to create childbirth choices that work for mothers. We do this through:
  Education,  Truth and Action.