The formation of code of normative legal documents ensuring activities of perinatal service is one of the most important, basic organizational technologies that determine activities of obstetrics and childhood services, contributing to increasing of natality, decreasing of maternal and infant morbidity, and maternal and childhood health care in general. The article presents analysis of formation of normative legal base that regulates functioning of perinatal service in the Russian Federation in 2000-2020. Actually, there is no objective prerequisites for fundamental alterations in the three-level system of medical care of women during pregnancy, labor, postpartum period and newborns. However, the regulatory adjustment of the system, improvement and refinement of models of profile patients' routing, development of medical care of pregnant women, parturient women and puerpera will proceed.
Keywords: maternity and childhood; normative legal support; obstetrics; perinatal service; reproductive health.