How to Become Mother-Friendly
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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service does not routinely employ practices and procedures that are unsupported by scientific evidence, including but not limited to the following:

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0006 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Hotelling Barbara A.

Keyword(s):

Scientific Evidence ◽

Birth Center ◽

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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides accurate descriptive and statistical information to the public about the practices and procedures for birth, including measures of interventions and outcomes.

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0002 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Marilyn Curl

Keyword(s):

Statistical Information ◽

Birth Center ◽

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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service discourages nonreligious circumcision of the newborn.

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0009 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine Gordon

Keyword(s):

Birth Center ◽

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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service educates staff in nondrug methods of pain relief, and does not promote the use of analgesic or anesthetic drugs not specifically required to correct a complication.

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0007 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Jeanette Schwartz

Keyword(s):

Pain Relief ◽

Birth Center ◽

Hospital Birth ◽

Anesthetic Drugs

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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service has clearly defined policies and procedures for collaborating and consulting with other maternity services and linking the mother and baby to appropriate community resources during both the prenatal and the postpartum periods.

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0005 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Judith A. Lothian

Keyword(s):

Community Resources ◽

Maternity Services ◽

Birth Center ◽

Hospital Birth ◽

Policies And Procedures

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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service offers all birthing mothers unrestricted access to birth companions, labor support, and professional midwifery care.

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0001 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Marilyn Curl

Keyword(s):

Midwifery Care ◽

Labor Support ◽

Birth Center ◽

Hospital Birth ◽

Unrestricted Access

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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides culturally competent care; that is, care that is sensitive and responsive to the specific beliefs, values, and customs of the mother’s ethnicity and religion.

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0003 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Karen Miles Sheffield

Keyword(s):

Culturally Competent ◽

Culturally Competent Care ◽

Birth Center ◽

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How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.ap01 ◽

2014 ◽

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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service encourages all mothers and families, including those with sick or premature newborns or infants with congenital problems, to touch, hold, breastfeed, and care for their babies to the extent compatible with their conditions.

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0008 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Rhonda Lanning

Keyword(s):

Premature Newborns ◽

Birth Center ◽

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A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides the birthing woman with the freedom to walk, move about, and assume the positions of her choice during labor and birth (unless restriction is specifically required to correct a complication), and discourages the use of the lithotomy (flat on back with legs elevated) position.

How to Become Mother-Friendly ◽

10.1891/9780826129772.0004 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Laurey Munch

Keyword(s):

Birth Center ◽

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