Resources - Supporting Vaginal Birth | California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative

Collaborative Resources

Resources have been developed to help support the collaborative's efforts to reduce first birth cesarean sections. Click on the resource links below for downloads.

The Toolkit to Support Vaginal Birth and Reduce Primary Cesareans and its Implementation Guide are available to download after a brief survey here.

Readiness

Childbirth education, Shared decision making, Birth plans, Payment reform

Birth Preferences Worksheet

Informed Consent for Elective Cesarean Birth

Call out Commitment Board

The Cesarean Option Slide Set

Recognition and Prevention

Early labor, Labor support, Pain management, Doulas, Intermittent monitoring

Intermittent Auscultation for Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Surveillance

Putting intelligent structured intermittent auscultation (ISIA) into practice

Coping with Labor Algorithm

PDSA Cycle Algorithm for Coping with Labor Pain

Coping with Labor Algorithm: An Innovative Approach to Labor Pain Webinar

Coping with Labor Algorithm: An Innovative Approach to Labor Pain Presentation Slides

Doulas: Including doula practice in hospital care Webinar Recording

Intermittent Monitoring Webinar Recording

What is a Doula? Mt. Diablo Doula Community

Response

Labor management, Fetal surveillance, Dystocia, Induction of labor, Management of malposition

Management of Fetal Malposition

Pre-cesarean Checklist

Labor Dystocia Checklist

Labor Duration Guidelines

Spontaneous Labor Algorithm

Algorithm for Management of 2nd Stage of Labor

Active Labor Partogram

Algorithm for Management for Category II Fetal Heart Rate Tracings

Example Algorithm for Management of Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Tracings

Induction of Labor Algorithm

Hoag Induction Scheduling Process

Hoag Induction of Labor (IOL) Scheduling Request

6 is the New 4 – Active Labor - ACOG

Reporting and Systems Learning

My Birth Matters - Consumer Education Resources about C-Sections

The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), CMQCC and Consumer Reports have partnered on consumer education campaign My Birth Matters to educate low-risk, first-birth mothers about the overuse of c-sections and encourage meaningful conversations between patients and their care team.

The campaign includes four animated videos, a consumer-facing My Birth Matters webpage and print materials. All resources are available on CHCF's webpage for free in both English and Spanish.

Maternal Data Center resources

For user guides and recordings on using the Maternal Data Center to access your cesarean data, please log in to the MDC and visit the Support page (last link in the top black bar).

Please note: An MDC account is needed to access the Support page. If you do not have an account, please contact one of the MDC Administrators at your hospital to request access.

For additional help, or to learn who your MDC Administrator is, please contact datacenter@cmqcc.org.

Resources - Supporting Vaginal Birth