Activities

Mothers of Change intends to carry out these activities, as our resources allow:

• create a survey to research mothers’ maternity care experiences with specific care providers, including interventions, levels of satisfaction with care, and postpartum experience.
• disseminate the maternity care survey results to the public through a searchable database.
• provide feedback and education for maternity care providers through the survey results. 
• provide articles and information on research into best practices for maternity care. 
• link to birth blogs providing information on physiological birth and best practices. 
• highlight gaps in evidence for maternity care best practices. 
• provide a support network for mothers and an online community where mothers can post birth stories, birth videos, and birth photos. 
• recruit members in each province and territory to form local chapters which will coordinate maternity support groups, activities, and events. 
• facilitate evidence-based, comprehensive prenatal education through the local chapters.
• create illustrations of birth for use by health professionals, child birth educators, and others that show mothers in optimal birth positions such as all fours, squatting, standing (not lithotomy). 
• create an interactive forum for mothers and doulas, so mothers can get support in communicating with health care professionals. 
• keep track of and publish cesarean rates for institutions and/or individual doctors
• involve the media when institutions refuse women VBACs or cause iatrogenic illness/injury 
• send publications or representatives to physicians to educate them 
• fund doulas/educators/midwives to perform inservices, guest speak to medical students and nursing students, etc. 
• publish the Mothers of Change blog
• facilitate a pilot project for improving prenatal care through prenatal education and support groups 
• facilitate The Language Project to create new, woman and baby centered language around maternity care. 
• operate breastmilk banks