Step 5: has clearly defined policies, procedures for collaboration, consultation, links to community resources: the coalition for improving maternity services:.
Step 5 of the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Care ensures that the hospital, birth center, or home birth service has clearly defined policies and procedures for collaborating and consulting with other maternity services and for linking the mother and baby to appropriate community services during both the prenatal and the postpartum periods. The rationales and evidence in support of this step are presented.
KAREN SALT is an author, childbirth educator, doula, and former cochair of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. She currently attends Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, as a full-time doctoral student, specializing in nationalism, race, and gender studies.
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