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American College of Nurse Midwives
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
Birth Centers Offer Potential to Transform Maternity Care Through Community-Led Approaches that Focus on Families of Color
CDC, Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2023
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2023/maternal-mortality-rates-2023
CDC, Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality
https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/features/maternal-mortality.html
Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice: https://blackmaternalhealth.tufts.edu/
Comparative Analysis of Therapeutic Showers and Bathtubs for Pain Management and Labor Outcomes—A Retrospective Cohort Study
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/
Fetal Heart Monitoring
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/fetal-heart-monitoring
Fundal Height
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/22294-fundal-height
Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8020496/
Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison
March of Dimes
https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/about-us
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https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/data?reg=99&top=11&stop=653&lev=1&slev=4&obj=1&sreg=48
https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/data?reg=99&top=11&stop=154&lev=1&slev=4&obj=1&sreg=48
Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC)
Monitoring Baby’s Heart Rate During Labor
https://familydoctor.org/monitoring-babys-heart-rate-labor/
Mucus Plug
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21606-mucus-plug
Nasal Cannula
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25187-nasal-cannula
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