• Pregnancy Yoga Exercises
• Pregnancy and Massage Therapy
• Chiropractic and Pregnancy (Plus Exercises)
• Visualization for a Loving Birth
• Traditional Chinese Medicine for Pregnancy
• Prenatal Exercise Tips

Birthing Options

• Hospital Birth With Obstetricians
• Hospital Birth With Certified Nurse Midwives
• Freestanding Birth Centers
• Birth at Home
• Is Homebirth Safe?
• Types of Homebirth Midwives and Fees
• Renting Tubs for Home Waterbirth
• Homebirth with Certified Nurse-Midwives
• Homebirth With Direct-Entry Midwives

U.S. Midwifery Organizations, State by State

The Transparency in Maternity Care Project was birthed in February of 2006 by the Grassroots Advocates Committee (GAC) of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS). We are a volunteer group dedicated to ensuring public access to quality of care information specifically related to maternity care providers and institutions. Go here to review The Birth Survey and find out about intervention rates at hospitals in your community and to share with mothers to be about your hospital birth experiences and your doctor.

What is Transparency?

Transparency in maternity care means providing health care consumers with the information they need - and the means to interpret it - in order to evaluate the quality of care provided by individual providers and institutions.
Transparency is the missing ingredient to truly informed choice.