So far there have been 2 versions of the Babies Born Better survey – click on the following links to find out how well the survey was responded to each time.
“Make it better for the women and babies who come after me”: Findings from women in Australia completing the international Babies Born Better survey. Birth. 2023 http://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12762
Women’s satisfaction with care at the birthplace in Austria: Evaluation of the Babies Born Better survey national dataset. Luegmair K, Zenzmaier C, Oblasser C, König-Bachmann M. Midwifery. 2018 Apr;59:130-140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2018.01.003
Welcher Geburtsort entspricht den Wünschen und Bedürfnissen von Frauen? Entwicklung eines Kategoriensystems zur Auswertung der österreichischen Daten des Babies Born Better Projekts. Luegmair K. 2016. Masterthesis. http://bond.azw.ac.at/opacdata/0010034781.pdf
What influences women’s experiences of childbirth in Flanders? – A quantitative cross-sectional analysis of the Babies Born Better Survey. 2023. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0266613823002139?via%3Dihub
Raboteg-Šarić Z, Brajša-Žganec A, Mujkić A. Optimising childbirth in Croatia – mothers’ perceptions of the best experience and their suggestions for change. Central European Journal of Paediatrics. 2017;13(2):117-129.
OPTIMISING CHILDBIRTH IN CROATIA – MOTHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE BEST EXPERIENCE AND THEIR SUGGESTIONS FOR CHANGE
Exploring mother’s experiences of perinatal care in Cyprus: Babies Born Better survey. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05800-5
Cyprus analysis presentation
Germany was the first country to publish its findings from the B3 survey through the country coordinators Masters thesis.
Talk about B3 on the Midwifery Conference (“Hebammenkongress”) of the German Midwives Society (DHV) in May 2016.
Poster Presentation on a DGHWi conference (German Society of Midwifery Science) in Fulda in February : B3 Poster in German (February 2016)
Olga Gouni Mothers’ perceptions of their Birth Experience in Greece: Could We Do Any Better Than That? Research Analysis of the Babies Born Better Survey for Greece Internation journal of pre natal and life sciences DOI: 10.24946/IJPLS.20.19.00.00.210720 https://www.journalprenatalife.com 2020
http://www.journalprenatalife.com/index.php/prenatal/article/view/67
Results from the Hungary version 1 survey: Hungary Data Trends
Hannon K, Nilsen ABV, Murphy M, Eri TS, Leahy-Warren P, Corcoran P, et al. What women identify as positive aspects and areas for improvement of maternity care and services in Ireland: An online survey. Women and Birth. 2022 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2022.11.009.
Skoko, E., Ravaldi, C., Vannacci, A., Nespoli, A., Akooji, N., Balaam, M. C., Battisti, A., Cericco, M., Iannuzzi, L., Morano, S., & Downe, S. (2018). Findings from the Italian Babies Born Better Survey. Minerva ginecologica, 70(6), 663–675. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4784.18.04296-X
Press release for article (in Italian)
Mamme in sala parto (E. Skoko): “Lamentano mancanza di umanità”
‘To be Informed and Involved’: Women’s insights on optimising childbirth care in Lithuania. 2023. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hex.13754
Interview with G. Širvinskienė and S. Downe about Babies Born Better study:
https://miestomamos.lt/2018/05/21/moters-patirtis-gimdant-kodel-reiketu-i-ja-atsizvelgti/
Interview with G. Širvinskienė, 2020: https://naujienos.manodaktaras.lt/naujiena/tarptautinis-tyrimas-lietuvos-moterys-gimdymo-metu-nori-daugiau-pagarbos.338a0039-c090-11ea-94e8-aa00003c90d0
Presentation in the Lithuanian psychology congress, 2019: Širvinskienė, Giedrė. Babies Born Better projekto pristatymas // Lietuvos psichologų kongresas „DIALOGAI“, 2019 m. gegužės 24-25 d.Vilniaus universitetas. Lietuvos psichologų sąjunga.
Presentation in conference “Psychology science for health”: Širvinskienė, Giedrė. Tarptautinis Babies Born Better tyrimas: įžvalgos gimdymo priežiūros sistemos tobulinimui // Antroji kasmetinė konferencija „Psichologijos mokslas sveikatai“, 2019 05 23 / Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas.
BBB survey coordinator in Lithuania Giedre Sirvinskiene together with colleagues had a presentation in a national scientific conference of psychologist this autumn about BBB results “Women Experience with Lithuanian Childbirth Care: Despite High Competence, Empowerment is Still Lacking”. They have found that the positive experience of childbirth care was mainly related with high competence of carer and negative experience was related with the lack of empowerment. The study participants in Lithuania expressed the need of more empowerment in childbirth care
https://www.lsmuni.lt/cris/handle/20.500.12512/108055
Two midwifery students from AVAG in Amsterdam, Rofayda Tagmount and Maria Villamarin, won the prize for the best presentation at the From Birth to Health: Towards Sustainable Childbirth COST Action BIRTH Conference held in Lisbon Sept 17-18, 2018 for their presentation Mothers’ views about care provided during childbirth in the Netherlands: aspects of care valued most and suggestions for improvement.
van den Berg, L. M. M., Akooji, N., Thomson, G., de Jonge, A., Balaam, M. C., Topalidou, A., Downe, S., & ASPIRE COVID-19 research team (2022). Making maternity and neonatal care personalised in the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from the Babies Born Better survey in the UK and the Netherlands. PloS one, 17(11), e0267415. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267415
Vedeler, C., Nilsen, A., Blix, E., Downe, S., & Eri, T. S. (2022). What women emphasise as important aspects of care in childbirth – an online survey. BJOG, 129(4), 647-655. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.16926
Eri, T. S., Blix, E., Downe, S., Vedeler, C., & Nilsen, A. B. V. (2022). Giving birth and becoming a parent during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of 806 women’s responses to three open-ended questions in an online survey. Midwifery, 109, 103321. https://doi.org/doi:10.2196/28091
Carina Vedeler , Tine Schauer Eri , Roy Miodini Nilsen , Ellen Blix , Soo Downe , Kjetil A van der Wel , Anne Britt Vika Nilsen Women’s negative childbirth experiences and socioeconomic factors: Results from the Babies Born Better survey. 2023. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187757562300040X?via%3Dihub
Eri, T. S., Blix, E., Downe, S., Vedeler, C., & Nilsen, A. B. V. (2022). Giving birth and becoming a parent during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of 806 women’s responses to three open-ended questions in an online survey. Midwifery, 109, 103321. doi:10.2196/28091
What matters to women who have given birth in Norway: findings from the Babies Born Better Survey.
Nilsen, A. B. V., Eri, T. S., Downe, S., & Haukeland Fredriksen, E. (2021). Exploring women’s self-reported health problems in pregnancy in the UK and Norway. Health Care for Women International, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2021.2021913
Vedeler, C., Nilsen, A. B. V., Blix, E., Downe, S. & Eri, T. S. (2021). What women emphasise as important aspects of care in childbirth: An online survey study. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. https://doi.org/0.1111/1471-0528.16926
Santos MJDS, Neves DM. A Manifest against the Homogenisation of Childbirth Experiences: Preserving Subjectiveness in a Large Dataset of the «Babies Born Better» Survey. Social sciences (Basel). 2021;10(10):388 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100388.
Santos, M., Neves, D. M. – Preserving the subjectivity of childbirth experiences in big datasets: an exploratory, computer-assisted qualitative data analysis of the Portuguese version of the «Babies Born Better» survey. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2021. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/10/388.
Neves, D. M., Santos, M. – Babies born better: o uso do software MaxQDA na análise preliminar das respostas portuguesas à secção qualitativa do inquérito. Revista Pesquisa Qualitativa, 6 (10). 2018. (Babies born better: the use of MaxQDA software in the preliminary analysis of the Portuguese responses to the qualitative section of the survey). https://editora.sepq.org.br/index.php/rpq/article/view/210
Dulce Morgado Neves, Mario Santos – A componente qualitativa do inquérito Babies Born Better: Análise preliminar às respostas portuguesas com recurso ao MaxQDA. 2017. (The qualitative component of the Babies Born Better survey: Preliminary analysis of Portuguese responses using MaxQDA.) 1184-4621-1-PB.pdf (iscte-iul.pt)
Oana M Blaga, Emanuel Hentes, Marius I Ungureanu, Alina I Forray – Predictors of planned caesarean section births in a sample of Romanian women. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 2022. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hpm.3424
Presentation of Romania analysis during meeting organized by the SAMAS NGO, in Bucharest, Romania:
Experiențele mamelor în timpul nașterii
Blaga OM, Hentes E, Ungureanu MI, Forray AI. Predictors of planned caesarean section births in a sample of Romanian women. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 2021;n/a(n/a) https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3424.
Zdechovanová, B. (2018). What Do Women Consider Best in Their Obstetric Care? [Master Thesis]. Paneuropean university, Bratislava, SK.
Húsková, M. (2019). How Do Women Describe Birth Care in Hospitals? [Master Thesis]. Paneuropean university, Bratislava, SK.
Marta Benet Ramon Escuriet Laura Palomar‐Ruiz Dolores Ruiz‐Berdún Fatima Leon‐Larios Women’s agenda for the improvement of childbirth care: Evaluation of the Babies Born Better survey data set in Spain. BIRTH. First published: 27 September 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12505
Experiencias de mujeres con el cuidado recibido durante su maternidad: BABIES BORN BETTER. XXI encuentro internacional de investigación en cuidados. Madrid, 14-17 de noviembre de 2017. Experiencias de mujeres con el cuidado durante su maternidad. [PDF]
Women´s experiences of maternity care in Spain.31st ICM Triennial Congress Toronto 2017. Midwives making a difference in the world. Toronto, 19-22 de junio de 2017. Experiencias de las mujeres en España con los servicio [PDF]
Recent analysis of the existing data (2014- 2015) in all languages by Ms. Stefanie Ingold (FHNW) for her Bachelor’s thesis.
Please click this link to view Stefanie Ingold’s thesis.
Summary from presentation at Human Rights in Childbirth conference Zagreb 2015
Marie-Clare Balaam Babies Born Better Survey: An opportunity for cross country analysis of childbirth practice.
http://www.roda.hr/media/attachments/english_roda/HRiC_2015_Conference%20papers.pdf
Širvinskienė, G, Forray, AI, König-Bachmann, M, et al. Experiences of childbirth care in Lithuania and Romania: Insights from the European Babies Born Better survey. Birth. 2023; 00: 1-13. doi:10.1111/birt.12771. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/birt.12771
Kuipers YJ, Thomson G, Goberna-Tricas J, Zurera A, Hresanová E, Temesgenová N, et al. The social conception of space of birth narrated by women with negative and traumatic birth experiences. Women and Birth. 2022 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2022.04.013.
The United Kingdom and the Netherlands maternity care responses to COVID-19: A comparative study Lauri M.M. van den Berg a, Marie-Clare Balaam, Rebecca Nowland, Gill Moncrieff, Anastasia Topalidou, Suzanne Thompson, Gill Thomson, Ank de Jonge, Soo Downe & ASPIRE-COVID19 Research Team. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2022.03.010.
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