Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care is a multidisciplinary, refereed journal devoted to issues and practices in the care of childbearing women, infants, and families. It is written by and for professionals in maternal and neonatal health, nurses, midwives, physicians, public health workers, doulas, social scientists, childbirth educators, lactation counselors, epidemiologists, and other health caregivers and policymakers in perinatal care.

The aims of Birth are:
To publish original, well-designed, peer-reviewed research on issues in pregnancy and childbirth.

To underline the importance of evidence-based research in changing clinical practices.

To present a forum for discussing current issues in maternal and newborn care.

While research on all types of birth experiences is encouraged, one special research interest of this journal is in the analysis of the birth experiences of low-risk women.

To provide review articles on topics of major importance in perinatal care.

Editorial Board
Editor
Marian F. MacDorman, PhD
Takoma Park, Maryland, USA


Editor Emeritus
Diony Young
Geneseo, New York, USA


Founding Editor
Madeleine H. Shearer


Editorial Board
Susan Ayers, PhD
London, England

Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Howard Cabral, PhD, MPH
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Nils Chaillet, PhD
Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

Linda Chaudron, MD, MS
Rochester, New York, USA

Melissa Cheyney, PhD, CPM, LDM,
Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Sarah Danner, CPNP, CNM
Castleton, Vermont, USA
Zoe Darwin, PhD, MSc
Leeds, UK

Eugene Declercq, PhD
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Deborah L. Dee, PhD, MPH
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Simone Diniz, MD
São Paulo, Brazil

Ann M. Dozier, PhD
Rochester, NY, USA

Jan Jaap H.M. Erwich, MD, PhD
Groningen, The Netherlands

David P. Hopkins, MD, MPH
Portland, Oregon, USA

Marc J.N.C. Keirse, MD, DPhil
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Holly Powell Kennedy, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Russell S. Kirby, PhD, MS
Tampa, Florida, USA

Michael Klein, MD, CCFP
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Reija Klemetti, PhD
Helsinki, Finland

Andrew Kotaska, MD
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

Lawrence M. Leeman, MD, MPH
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Ruowei Li, MD, PhD
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Ingela Marie Lundgren, PhD
Gothenburg, Sweden
Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Christine McCourt, BA(Hons), PhD
London, England

Alison McFadden, PhD
Scotland, UK

Fay Menacker, DrPH, RN
Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Christine H. Morton, PhD
Palo Alto, California, USA

Beth Murray-Davis, RM PhD
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, PhD
Maastricht, the Netherlands
Judy Norsigian
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Jane Sandall, PhD, MSc
London, England

Neel Shah, MD, MPP
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Penny Simkin, PT
Seattle, Washington, USA

Heather Sipsma, PhD
Lisle, IL, USA

Kathrin Stoll, BA, MA, PhD
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Edwin R. van Teijlingen, PhD
Bournemouth, UK

Saraswathi Vedam, RM, FACNM, MSN
British Columbia, Canada

Ruth T. Wilf, CNM, PhD
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

Jane Yelland, PhD
Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Diony Young
Geneseo, NY, USA

Jun Jim Zhang, MD
Shanghai, China