VOLUME 47 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2020

COMMENTARY

Birth by a thousand cuts 301
W. Spencer McClelland MD

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

Systematic review of barriers to, and facilitators of, the provision of high-quality midwifery services in India 304
Alison McFadden RM, PhD , Sunanda Gupta MBBS, MS, MPH ,
Joyce L. Marshall RM, MPH, PhD , Shona Shinwell RM, MSc ,
Bharati Sharma PhD , Fran McConville SRN, SCM, MA , and
Steve MacGillivray PhD

Midwives’ and obstetricians’ level of knowledge of appropriate gestational weight gain recommendations for pregnancy: A systematic review 322
Shauna Callaghan RM, BSc, Midwifery , Eileen O’Brien RD, PhD ,
Barbara Coughlan PhD, MA (Research), BA, RM, RGN , and
Fionnuala M. McAuliffe MD, FRCOG, FRCPI

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The role of midwifery and other international insights for maternity care in the United States: An analysis of four countries 332
Holly Powell Kennedy PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN , Marie-Clare Balaam MA ,
Hannah Dahlen PhD, AO , Eugene Declercq PhD , Ank de Jonge PhD ,
Soo Downe PhD, OBE , David Ellwood DPhil (Oxon), FRANZCOG ,
Caroline S. E. Homer PhD, AO , Jane Sandall PhD, CBE ,
Saraswathi Vedam PhD, RM, MSN, FACNM , and Ingrid Wolfe PhD, OBE

Competencies for respectful maternity care: Identifying those most important to midwives worldwide 346
Michelle M. Butler PhD, MSc, BSc, RM, RN , Judith Fullerton PhD, CNM , and
Cheryl Aman PhD

Knowledge of postpartum care and postbirth warning signs among midwives in Ghana 357
Yenupini Joyce Adams PhD, RNC-MNN , and Herman E. Ray PhD

Women’s agenda for the improvement of childbirth care: Evaluation of the
Babies Born Better survey data set in Spain 365
Marta Benet, Ramon Escuriet, Laura Palomar-Ruiz, Dolores Ruiz-Berdún, and
Fatima Leon-Larios

Qualitative evaluation of an innovative midwifery continuity scheme: Lessons from using a quality care framework 378
Andrew Symon, and Shona Shinwell

Process lessons from evaluating a combined continuity of carer and home birth scheme 389
Andrew Symon RM, MA [Hons], PhD , Shona Shinwell RM, MSc , and
Justine Craig RM, BSc, MSc
Factors affecting third-stage management and postpartum hemorrhage in planned
midwife-led home and birth center births in the United States 397
Elise N. Erickson PhD, CNM , Marit L. Bovbjerg PhD, MS , and
Melissa J. Cheyney PhD, CPM, LDM

Fetal macrosomia in home and birth center births in the United States: Maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes 409
Sabrina Pillai MPH , Melissa Cheyney PhD, LDM , Courtney L. Everson PhD ,
and Marit L. Bovbjerg PhD, MS

The association between longer durations of the latent phase of labor and subsequent perinatal processes and outcomes among midwifery patients 418
Ellen L. Tilden PhD, CNM , Julia C. Phillippi PhD, CNM ,
Nicole Carlson PhD, CNM , Mekhala Dissanayake MPH , Christopher S. Lee
PhD, RN , Aaron B. Caughey MD, PhD , and Jonathan M. Snowden PhD

Rural resilience: The role of birth centers in the United States 430
Diana Jolles PhD, CNM , Susan Stapleton DNP, CNM , Jennifer Wright MA ,
Jill Alliman DNP, CNM , Kate Bauer MBA , Carla Townsend MLS, BS , and
Lauren Hoehn-Velasco PhD, MA, BS