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Using Your Voice

While doctors and other providers are trusted professionals, you know your body best — trust your instincts! If something seems wrong or feels off, it is in your best interest to speak up for a safe and comfortable pregnancy.

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What Does Good Maternity Care Mean to You?

What Does Good Maternity Care Mean to You?

Good care looks different for every person. In this film, you’ll meet doctors, midwives, doulas, and parents who discuss different models of care that are safe, respectful, and person-centered.

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Birth Explained: The Beauty of Biology

Birth Explained: The Beauty of Biology

How does birth work? Learn how the mind and body work together during labor to open up for your baby. It’s a beautiful process, and one you can learn to trust.

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Using Your Voice

Using Your Voice

While doctors and other providers are trusted professionals, you know your body best — trust your instincts! If something seems wrong or feels off, it is in your best interest to speak up for a safe and comfortable pregnancy.

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Unpacking the Postpartum Experience: What Do New Parents Need?

Unpacking the Postpartum Experience: What Do New Parents Need?

The care you receive after birth is just as important as during your pregnancy. Meet doctors, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants and new parents who share what the postpartum period is really like and how to find the support and care you need.

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Navigating Hope and Fear

Navigating Hope and Fear

While it is completely normal to feel stress or fear around pregnancy, labor, and parenthood, remember that hope and joy are important parts of your journey too. Take this time to ask the questions on your mind, create a birth plan, and prepare for the newest addition to your family — you got this!

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Centering Humanity: The Black Birth Experience

Centering Humanity: The Black Birth Experience

All people deserve a safe and positive birth experience, but all too often that is not the case for Black people. Meet doulas and midwives who reflect on how to center Black birthing people and ensure that every person has respectful, culturally aligned care that meets their needs and keeps them safe.

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What Could Make It All Different? (Spanish)

What Could Make It All Different? (Spanish)

All people deserve a safe and positive birth experience, but all too often that is not the case for people who have language barriers. Meet doulas and midwives who reflect on how to ensure that every person has respectful, culturally aligned care that meets their needs and keeps them safe.

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Resources

What Matters Most During My Prenatal Care?

Making decisions about your prenatal care is easier if you have sorted out what matters most to you. Use this worksheet to think about your priorities so you can weigh your options.

What Matters Most During My Birth?

Coming up with a birth plan and making decisions will be easier if you have sorted out what matters most to you. Use this worksheet to think about your priorities so you can weigh your options.

Affirmations for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

Print or share these words of encouragement so you can get a boost of confidence when you need it. The set includes blanks where you can write your own affirmations.

A Love Letter to Your Postpartum Body

Inspired by Jasmine and LaShanda's conversation in Birth Explained: The Beauty of Biology, here's a worksheet to help you give your body the 'thank you' it deserves. After all it has gone through and done for you and your baby, give it a little love!

How to Choose Your Provider & Get the Care and Support You Need

One of the first choices you need to make in your pregnancy is where to go for your prenatal care. And it’s an important choice!

Know Your Rights! 4 Powerful Resources for Childbearing People

Use these resources to become familiar with your rights during pregnancy and childbirth and to practice tools for self-advocacy.
Explore Your Options with the B.R.A.I.N. Technique

Explore Your Options with the B.R.A.I.N. Technique

B.R.A.I.N. is a useful technique that can help you weigh the pros and cons of any decision during pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
The Six Key Steps: Making Pregnancy and Birth Decisions

The Six Key Steps: Making Pregnancy and Birth Decisions

When deciding what’s best for you and your baby, following these six steps will help you ask the right questions and make choices with all the information you need.