The facts and insights showcased on mothers.dayare sourced from a wealth of great research. If you’d like to learn more about the inequities in different peoples’ journey towards parenthood, check out these reports and resources.

• CDC "Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality," 2022

• CDC "Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System," 2017

• NIH "NIH study suggests women with disabilities have higher risk of birth complications and death," 2021

• Everett BG, Kominiarek MA, Mollborn S, Adkins DE, Hughes TL. "Sexual Orientation Disparities in Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes," 2020

• AIHW "Maternal deaths in Australia," 2020

• Knight M, Bunch K, Kenyon S, Tuffnell D, Kurinczuk JJ "A national population-based cohort study to investigate inequalities in maternal mortality in the United Kingdom, 2009-17," 2020

• Ali B, Chauhan S. "Inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health Care in Rural India: Evidences from National Family Health Survey III & IV," 2020

• WHO "Maternal mortality," 2019

• CDC "Identifying Maternal Depression," 2020

• Flanders CE, Gibson MF, Goldberg AE, Lori E Ross "Postpartum depression among visible and invisible sexual minority women: a pilot study," 2016

• IUPUI Women’s Philanthropy Institute "Women Give 2018," 2018

• IUPUI Women’s Philanthropy Institute "Women Give 2013," 2013

• IUPUI Women’s Philanthropy Institute "Women & Girls Index (WGI)," 2021

• Society for Maternal Fetal-Medicine "Maternal mortality scorecard," 2020-2021

• Society for Maternal Fetal-Medicine "Strategies to Overcome Racism's Impact on Pregnancy Outcomes," 2020

• Pollaczek P, Ayadi A, Mohamed H "Building a country-wide Fistula Treatment Network in Kenya: results from the first six years (2014-2020)," 2022