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We’re honored to work alongside CALM and its members and excited about what this collaboration makes possible.

Welcome to the CBDR community!
🔗 Visit CBDR online: fhcq.org/cbdr

#CBDR #FHCQ #CommunityBirth #BirthEquity #HomeBirthMidwife #CaliforniaAssociationOfLicensedMidwives
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...this partnership represents a powerful step forward in elevating community midwifery care, strengthening quality improvement efforts, and ensuring community birth outcomes are visible, valued, and represented. [3/4]

As of 2026, CALM members now receive CBDR membership as part of their association benefits, opening the door for community midwives across California to participate in a data registry created by midwives, for midwives.

With California’s vibrant and diverse community birth landscape... [2/4]

✨ Welcome, CALM midwives! ✨

We’re thrilled to welcome members of the California Association of Licensed Midwives (CALM) to the Community Birth Data Registry (CBDR).
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...and to offering specific, actionable opportunities for change.

On this important day, we reaffirm our commitment to birth justice for all families through meaningful, inclusive data.

🔗 Learn more and join CBDR: fhcq.org/cbdr
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On World Day of Social Justice, we recognize the essential role data play in advancing equity in perinatal care.

At CBDR, we believe that harnessing high-quality data across all birth settings is key to identifying underlying inequities in our healthcare systems....
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Through CBDR, community birth midwives help ensure that their work—and their clients—are represented in the data that drives research and change. ➡️ Learn more and join: fhcq.org/cbdr

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#CBDR #FHCQ #CommunityBirth #BirthEquity #HomeBirthMidwife #BirthCenter

When community birth midwives contribute to CBDR, they help build the evidence needed to inform research and improve outcomes for all families. [2/3]

Today, CBDR recognizes all girls and women whose research, analysis, and lived experiences help to move maternal and newborn care forward—and that includes you, our members. [1/3]

#CBDR #FHCQ #CommunityBirth #BirthEquity #HomeBirthMidwife #BirthCenter #PostpartumDay #PostpartumResearch #CommunityBirthData

CBDR allows you to continue capturing meaningful postpartum data—so you can better understand outcomes, reflect on the impact of your care, and look for ways to serve families even more effectively in the year ahead.

➜ Learn more and join CBDR: fhcq.org/cbdr

Your work continues through the early weeks, supporting a new family’s healing, feeding, adjustment, and confidence.

At the Community Birth Data Registry (CBDR), we honor the postpartum period, too.

✨Happy Postpartum Day. Forty days into the new year is a reminder that the first 40 days after birth are a sacred window of recovery, connection, and continued care—one that community birth midwives know well.

At CBDR, we see this as meaningful progress. When data, collaboration, and shared responsibility come together across care settings, families are better supported—especially when plans change.

🔗 CBDR: fhcq.org/cbdr

🔗 Smooth Transitions™: qualityhealth.org/smoothtransitions/
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The new guidance closely aligns with Smooth Transitions™—a program housed alongside CBDR at the Foundation for Health Care Quality, focused on improving the safety, coordination, and experience of hospital transfers from planned home and birth center births. [3/4]

In its new statement, “Transfer Protocols for Out-of-Hospital Birth,” ACOG emphasizes the importance of:
✔️ Clear, respectful, pre-established transfer protocols
✔️ Shared decision-making
✔️ Strong relationships between community-based providers and hospital teams
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We’ve long known that integrated care between community birth & hospital settings supports safer, better outcomes—especially when a transfer is needed. Now, we’re encouraged to see a new position statement from the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists that reflects this. [1/4]

This Black History Month, we’re highlighting work and perspectives that show how perinatal data can help advance equity, accountability, and better birth care for all families. More to come throughout February.

➡️ Visit CBDR online: fhcq.org/cbdr
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Honoring Black History Month.

Data have power—especially when they reflect the experiences of communities that have historically been underrepresented. [1/2]

➜ Learn more and join CBDR: fhcq.org/cbdr
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This cost covers the long-term storage of a complete course of care in perpetuity, so community birth data can be used by each participating midwife for the ongoing examination of their own practice and for meaningful quality improvement, research and learning—now and in the future. [3/4]

✔️Participating midwives pay only for data storage

The result: Annual participation rates designed to be workable for practices of all sizes.

✳️ $90 per year for 20 births or fewer
✳️ $4.50 per birth for more than 20 births
✳️ Capped at $500 per year, regardless of volume
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Collecting high-quality community birth data shouldn’t be a financial burden.

At the Community Birth Data Registry (CBDR), we’ve structured our pricing intentionally to keep costs low:
✔️Grant funding supports staffing and ongoing development of the registry [1/4]

That’s the role of data—and our goal at CBDR: To move conversations forward with the evidence, rigor, and honesty that improves birth care and outcomes for every family.
➡️ Join us: fhcq.org/cbdr
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Their findings challenged polarized narratives, concluding that waterbirth was “neither as harmful as some current guidelines suggest, nor as benign as some proponents claim.”

The study went on to influence international guidance on waterbirth practices. [2/3]

A 2022 study published in BJOG shows what becomes possible when community birth data are collected at scale.

Using data from more than 35,000 planned community births, researchers conducted a rigorous analysis comparing waterbirth and land birth outcomes.
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All are welcome: https://thinkbiginitiative.org/

#ThinkBigInitiative #CommunityBirth #Midwifery #NACPM
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This conversation is the start of year two’s collaborative work with the community: examining challenges, identifying opportunities, and exploring what it would take to expand access to community-based midwifery care.

Supported by Skyline Foundation. Grounded in peer collaboration. [3/4]

We're bringing together midwives, advocates, researchers, and community partners to explore five infrastructure areas: quality improvement, data and research, workforce development, policy reform, and systems integration. [2/4]

Tomorrow: Let's Think Big

Join NACPM and OSU's Uplift Lab as we launch the Think Big Initiative Community Conversations: a conversation about infrastructure for community birth.

📅 January 28, 12:30 PM Pacific ⏱️ 90 minutes 💻 Virtual (register at https://thinkbiginitiative.org/ )
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