About MANA Stats

This is a project of the Division of Research of the Midwives Alliance of North America (www.mana.org), an organization inclusive of all forms of midwifery.  Midwives Alliance midwives have been collecting their statistics for research purposes since the 1990s.  Some of this data was used in a large study of planned homebirths, “Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America,” published June 18, 2005 in the British Medical Journal.  The MANA Statistics Project (MANA Stats) web site was launched in November 2004 and an improved version was launched in early 2009.  The site currently uses two data forms developed using a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) model.

See our researcher page for more information.

 

Are you a midwife who would like to contribute your data?

In order to submit birth data to the MANA Statistics Project, you must enroll as a contributor. In doing so, you agree to log every client who comes into your care, and to enter complete data for every birth you attend, using our easy and secure Web-based system (unless a client declines consent to participate).

You can try out a demo version of the system at demo.manastats.org with the username guest and password ‘demoguest’.

 

Want to enroll?  Download the Enrollment Form, print and complete it, and mail it to the address printed on the form. Ideally all members of a practice should enroll.  An account will be set up for you upon enrollment; you will be notified by e-mail of your account name and asked to select your own password.  The site features extensive documentation to explain the system and how to use it.

You do not need to be a member of the Midwives Alliance to enroll, though we would love you to consider joining to support this great work!  There is no fee to use the MANA Stats system. You do not have to practice in the home or birth center setting; hospital-based midwives are welcome to enroll as well. Questions regarding enrollment and participation can be addressed to the MANA Stats Support Team at support@manastats.org.

Certified Professional Midwives can earn CEUs towards recertification by contributing to MANA Stats.  See NARM’s CPM recertification bulletin (PDF) for details.

Contributors and organizations of contributors (such as state professional midwifery associations) may access summary statistics of their own data at any time. Contact the Support Team for more details.

See our FAQ page for answers to frequently asked questions about the MANA Statistics Project.