Following are ideas about how to get involved, help spread the word, and support the cause.
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- Post a link to the trailer or embed the YouTube trailer in your blog -
- Post a link to the website -
- Send an email out to your email list -
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- Click here to add The Business of Being Born to your Facebook profile -
- To join our online community, please enter your information in the contact section -
- Click here to take THE BIRTH SURVEY -
THE BIRTH SURVEY
The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) is spearheading a campaign to disseminate information regarding obstetric care in the United States. To aid in this effort, we encourage women to participate in The Birth Survey, a project aimed at improving maternity care services through a systemitized collection and exchange of information and experiences. To take The Birth Survey, and to learn more, please click here.
MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT
"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. It is our intention to extend the current social trend toward transparency in health care into the virtually overlooked maternity care arena.
Our goal is to give women a mechanism that can be used to share information about maternity care practices in their community while at the same time providing practitioners and institutions feedback for quality of care improvement efforts.
At the heart of the project is an on-going, online consumer survey, The Birth Survey, that asks women to provide feedback about their birth experience with a particular doctor or midwife and within a specific birth environment. Responses will be made available online to other women in their community who are deciding where and with whom to birth. Paired with this experiential data will be official statistics from state departments of health listing obstetrical intervention rates at the facility level.
We believe that women of childbearing age must have access to information that will help them choose maternity care providers and institutions that are most compatible with their own philosophies and needs. We hope that the Transparency in Maternity Care Project will provide information that will help women make fully informed maternity care decisions."