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About - Babies Born Better

Babies Born Better is a long term project examining the views and experiences of women who have given birth in the last 3 years. The aim of the Babies Born Better project is to become a major resource for the improvement of maternal and childbirth care around the world. By finding out what works, for whom and in what circumstances, the project data will provide insight into best practice during birth.

The website is a portal to the Babies Born Better survey, a multi language survey that is available world wide. Along with access to the survey, the website will present findings, publications and details of researchers and their associated work with the survey data.

The Principle of ​Salutogenesis


One of the key underlying elements of the Action was the principle Salutogenesis. This approach supports a focus on the promotion of well-being for individuals and communities. In terms of maternity care, this means rejecting a focus on pathology and considering what factors promote positive outcomes. It supports an approach which seeks to explore which practices and approaches support good outcomes and positive experiences for mothers, babies and families and how maternity services can learn from these practices and philosophies. This underlying philosophy and an increasing awareness of the variety of women’s experiences  of birth and the range of childbirth cultures and practices across Europe led the Action to look for a way of investigating women’s experiences of birth. The Action wanted to identify and locate where women had positive birth experiences and received excellent care. Mapping these results would allow us to identify where good practice was happening and then learn from this best practice to support positive change. However, while our focus was on positive practice, we were also aware that the survey would highlight places and situations where women had poor experiences of maternity care.

Funding Details

The survey has subsequently been supported and further developed as a key part of a second COST Action IS1405 Building Intrapartum Research Through Health – an interdisciplinary whole system approach to understanding and contextualising physiological labour and birth (BIRTH)

B3 Collaborative Group Versions 1 & 2

Christoph Zenzmaier, Claudia Oblasser, Katrien Beeckman, Miglena Delcheva, Yoana Stancheva, Ilona Neshkova, Neda Deneva, Andreja Brajša Žganec, Aida Mujkić, Gordan Zlopaša, Andira Spyridou,  Eleni Hadjigeorgiou, Dominika Průchová , Ema Hresanova, Alena Parizkova, Jetta Clausen, Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen, Reeta Lamminpää, Luise Lengler, Christine Loytved, Anastasia Topalidou, Kleopatra Alamantarioutou, Olga Gouni, Erika Schmidt, Martina Szabó, Kitti Balogh, Róbert Hudy,  Anna Sárdi, Orsolya Hubert, Helga Gottfreðsdóttir, Berglind Hálfdánsdóttir, Lisa Francovich, Eleonora Meli, Ronit Calderon, Ronny  Shtarkshall, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Deirdre Daly, Margaret Murphy, Paul Corcoran, Giedrė Širvinskienė, Švitrigailė Grincevičienė, Rasa Pranskevičiūtė, Milda Kukulskienė, Rita Borg Xuereb, Carina Vedeler Lian, Ellen Blix, Dineke Korfker, Marlies Rijinders, Piedade Vaz Rebelo, Jo White, Dulce Neves , Sónia Cardoso, Helena Carvalho, Oana Blaga, Alexandra Brinzaniuc, Razvan Chereches, Cristian Meghea, Alexandra Sidor, Marius Ungureanu, Razvan Ciortea, Dragos Nemescu, Katarína Greškovičová,  Katarina Bartonova, Zuzana Kriskova, Nina Radin, Ramon Escuriet Peiró, Dolores Ruiz-Berdún, Marie Berg, Ingegerd Hildingsson, Anna Dencker, Christina Nilsson, Ans Luyben, Claudia Magistretti Meier, Annette Kuhn, Nicole Schmidt, Barbara Kaiser, Irene Maffi, Amanda Firth, Amelia Cooper Tomasina Stacey, Neil Horton, Fen Cheung, Paula Pustulka, Magdalena Błażek, Kim Fompeyrine Mizrahi, Henny Jonkers, Reem Hatamleh, Amani Abdulgair, Ana Duff, Gaiting Chen.

B3 Collaborative Group Version 3

Christoph Zenzmaier, Claudia Oblasser, Katrien Beeckman, Neda Deneva, Andreja Brajša Žganec, Aida Mujkić, Andria Spyridou, Eleni Hadjigeorgiou, Dominika Průchová , Ema Hresanova, Alena Parizkova, Jette Clausen, Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen, Anastasia Topalidou, Olga Gouni, Erika Schmidt, Helga Gottfreðsdóttir, Ronit Calderon, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Deirdre Daly, Margaret Murphy, Paul Corcoran, Giedrė Širvinskienė, Rita Borg Xuereb, Carina Vedeler Lian, Ellen Blix, Anne Britt Vika Nilsen, Dulce Neves, Sónia Cardoso, Helena Carvalho, Oana Blaga, Alina Ioana Forray, Katarína Greškovičová, Katarina Bartonova, Zuzana Kriskova, Nina Radin, Ramon Escuriet Peiró, Christina Nilsson, Ans Luyben, Paula Pustulka, Magdalena Błażek, Kim Fompeyrine Mizrahi, Henny Jonkers, Mel Cooper, Miglena Delcheva, Zora Raboteg Šarić, Mario Santos, Michaela Mudure, Marie-Clare Balaam, Lucy Frith, Naseerah Akooji, Fátima León Larios, Tine Schauer Eri, Mechthild Gross, Marina Weckend, Martina König-Bachmann, Karolina Luegmair, Anna Dencker, Soo Downe, Elena Skoko, Alessandra Battisti, Mette Juhl, Eva Rydahl, Iva Taksic, Edwin Van Teijlingen, Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, Yael Benyamini, Heidi Preis, Marjaana Siivola, Ekaterina Borozdina, Anastasia Novkunskaya, Yvette Miller, Florence Dhaenens, Lorena Binfa, Maribel Mella, Alicia Carrasco, Karina Carrasco Negüe, Loreto Pantoja, Iva Takšić, Antonella Nespoli, Laura Lannuzzi, Dr. Giedrė Širvinskienė, Dr. Švitrigailė Grincevičienė, Jean Calleja-Agius, Ank De Jonge, Triin Roosalu, Insaf Shaban, Roa Altaweli, Haya Zedan, Kleopatra Alamantariotou, Robert Hudy, Barbara Baranowska, Neesha Ridley, Saroj Vithlani, Karin Minnie, Ayşe Gürol, Dr. Claudia Meier Magistretti, Annette Kuhn, Barbara Kaiser, Nicole Schmidt, Jing Zhang

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