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    Birth: Volume 49, Issue 1

    1-165
    March 2022
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ISSUE INFORMATION

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Issue Information

  • Pages: 1-2
  • First Published: 01 February 2022

COMMENTARY

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Are perinatal quality collaboratives collaborating enough? How including all birth settings can drive needed improvement in the United States maternity care system

Audrey Levine BA, LM, CPM-retired,  Vivienne Souter MD,  Carol Sakala PhD, MSPH, 
  • Pages: 3-10
  • First Published: 26 October 2021
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Upright breech birth: New video research risks reviving Friedman’s curse

Betty-Anne Daviss MA, RM,  Kenneth C. Johnson PhD, 
  • Pages: 11-15
  • First Published: 01 December 2021

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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The structure of breech revolutions, a response to: “Upright breech birth: New video research risks reviving Friedman’s curse”

Shawn Walker RM PhD,  Anke Reitter FRCOG, PhD, 
  • Pages: 16-18
  • First Published: 21 December 2021

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

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Perceptions of women and partners on labor and birth positions: A meta-synthesis

Shefaly Shorey PhD, RN, RM,  Valerie Chan BSc (Hons),  Joan Gabrielle Lalor PhD, 
  • Pages: 19-29
  • First Published: 09 July 2021

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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Australian women's experiences of receiving maternity care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional national survey

Alyce N. Wilson MD, MPH,  Linda Sweet RM, PhD,  Vidanka Vasilevski PhD,  Yvonne Hauck RM, PhD,  Karen Wynter PhD,  Lesley Kuliukas RM, PhD,  Rebecca A. Szabo MBBS, MClinEd,  Caroline S. E. Homer RM, PhD,  Zoe Bradfield RM, PhD, 
  • Pages: 30-39
  • First Published: 27 June 2021
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Fear of childbirth, nonurgent obstetric interventions, and newborn outcomes: A randomized controlled trial comparing mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting with enhanced care as usual

Irena K. Veringa-Skiba MSc,  Esther I. de Bruin PhD,  Francisca J. A. van Steensel PhD,  Susan M. Bögels PhD, 
  • Pages: 40-51
  • First Published: 11 July 2021
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Geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in cesarean birth rates in Peru: A comparison between 2009 and 2018

Akram Hernández-Vásquez MD,  Horacio Chacón-Torrico MD,  Guido Bendezu-Quispe MD, 
  • Pages: 52-60
  • First Published: 08 July 2021
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The effect of offering a third-trimester routine ultrasound on pregnancy-specific anxiety and mother-to-infant bonding in low-risk women: A pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial

Myrte Westerneng PhD,  Ank de Jonge RM, PhD,  Anneloes L. van Baar PhD,  Anke B. Witteveen PhD,  Petra Jellema PhD,  K. Marieke Paarlberg MD, PhD,  Marlies Rijnders RM, PhD,  Henriëtte E. van der Horst MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 61-70
  • First Published: 20 July 2021
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Factors leading to satisfaction with counseling for Labor after Cesarean among Latina women in the United States

Alyxandra C. Williams MD, MPH,  Liliana I. Martinez MPH,  Andrew Garrison MD,  Caren J. Frost PhD, MPH,  Lisa H. Gren PhD, MSPH, 
  • Pages: 71-79
  • First Published: 15 July 2021
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Outcomes of attempted vaginal births after previous recurrent operative vaginal deliveries: An individual cumulative risk analysis

Misgav Rottenstreich MD, MBA,  Reut Rotem MD, MPH,  Aviel Hankin MD,  Amihai Rottenstreich MD,  Hen Y. Sela MD,  Ori Shen MD,  Sorina Grisaru-Granovsky MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 80-86
  • First Published: 13 July 2021
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Exposure to night-time light pollution and risk of prolonged duration of labor: A nationwide cohort study

Karin Windsperger MD, MSc,  Herbert Kiss MD, MBA,  Wilhelm Oberaigner PhD,  Hermann Leitner MSc,  Franz Binder BSc,  Dana A. Muin MD, MSc,  Philipp Foessleitner MD, BSc,  Peter W. Husslein MD,  Alex Farr MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 87-96
  • First Published: 11 July 2021
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Modifiable predictors of breastfeeding status and duration at 6 and 12 months postpartum

Huilan Xu BMed, MPH, MBiostat, PhD,  Sarah Marshall BNutrDiet(Hons), MSc,  Jennifer M. Jones Masters of Nursing, RM, Grad Dip Applied Science (Community, Health) MN,  Philayrath Phongsavan BA(Hons), MPH, PhD,  Li Ming Wen MD, MMed, PhD, 
  • Pages: 97-106
  • First Published: 18 July 2021
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A maternity care home model of enhanced prenatal care to reduce preterm birth rate and NICU use

Yondell Masten PhD, WHNP-BC, RNC-OB,  Huaxin Song PhD,  Christina R. Esperat PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN,  Linda J. McMurry DNP, RN, NEA-BC, 
  • Pages: 107-115
  • First Published: 24 August 2021
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Pregnancy and birth in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: The views of doulas

Crystal Adams PhD, MPH, 
  • Pages: 116-122
  • First Published: 23 July 2021
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Meal patterning and the onset of spontaneous labor

Alison K. Nulty MSPH,  Marit L. Bovbjerg PhD,  Amy H. Herring ScD,  Anna Maria Siega-Riz PhD, RD,  John M. Thorp Jr. MD,  Kelly R. Evenson PhD, 
  • Pages: 123-131
  • First Published: 28 August 2021
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Racial inequities in the course of treating perinatal mental health challenges: Results from listening to mothers in California

Eugene Declercq PhD,  Emily Feinberg ScD, CPNP,  Candice Belanoff ScD, MPH, 
  • Pages: 132-140
  • First Published: 30 August 2021
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Decreased incidence of cesarean surgical site infection rate with hospital-wide perioperative bundle

Neha Sood MD,  Rachel E. Lee MD,  Justin K. To MD,  Kelly L. Cervellione MPhil,  Maria DeMarinis Smilios MS, RNC-OB,  Hajoon Chun MD,  Ivan M. Ngai MD, 
  • Pages: 141-146
  • First Published: 06 September 2021
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Protocol versus practice: Deviations from guidelines in low-risk twin deliveries in the United States

Julia M. Morris PhD,  Andrea M. Bertotti PhD, 
  • Pages: 147-158
  • First Published: 21 September 2021
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Predictors of successful vaginal birth after cesarean without an epidural among women with no prior vaginal delivery

Gabriel Levin MD,  Abraham Tsur MD,  Lee Tenenbaum MD,  Nizan Mor MD,  Michal Zamir MD,  Raanan Meyer MD, 
  • Pages: 159-165
  • First Published: 06 September 2021