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 survey came out of the work of the COST Action IS0907: Changing childbirth cultures and consequences. This was a 4 year EU funded networking project which involved over 120 participants from 26 countries. The Action’s aim was to advance scientific knowledge about ways of improving maternity care provision and outcomes for mothers, babies and families across Europe by understanding what works, for who, in what circumstances , and by identifying and learning from the best.
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)
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.
Details of the Steering group and country coordinators can be found in the links below:
Steering Group
Country Coordinators
If you a researcher or are interested in accessing the B3 data please visit out accessing data page for more information.
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.
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