Baby Lifeline fundraising hero Frank Sharratt and his incredible team have completed The Rebekah Way – an extraordinary 105-mile endurance challenge across the Lake District – raising more than £4,200 for Baby Lifeline. The challenge saw Frank and his team take on over 9,400 metres of ascent across some of England’s toughest terrain, wild camping […]
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This week is Black Maternal Mental Health Week, an annual event dedicated to raising awareness about the mental health challenges faced by Black mothers. Sandra Igwe MBE, Founder of The Motherhood Group and a member of Baby Lifeline’s Family Voices Group, brings powerful lived experience and expertise to conversations about improving maternity care for Black
Yesterday, Health Secretary Yvette Cooper called for urgent reform across maternity services at Baby Lifeline’s seventh annual National Maternity Safety Conference, telling delegates that mothers and babies must never be treated as “second-class patients” and that maternity care must become a core NHS priority.
Today, MBRRACE-UK published its latest report, Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care 2026. The report examines the deaths of women during pregnancy and up to one year after pregnancy across the UK and Ireland between 2022 and 2024. It highlights key findings, offers advice and reassurance for women and birthing people before, during and after pregnancy,
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Today, Baroness Amos published the final report and recommendations from the independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation. The investigation brings together the experiences of families, healthcare professionals, and maternity and neonatal services across England, and aims to deliver long-term transformation in maternity and neonatal care. The review concludes that, though many families do have a
Today, the findings, conclusions, and essential actions from the Independent Review of Maternity Services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust have been published. The review, led by Donna Ockenden and her team, examined maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. It looked at 2,511 cases, including stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and serious injuries, and was
Baby Lifeline has received a generous £5,000 donation from Persimmon Homes Midlands, helping us provide life-saving midwifery kits and specialist emergency training for healthcare professionals supporting mothers and babies. Baby Lifeline has supported maternity services through the provision of essential equipment, specialist training for healthcare professionals, and research. In 2019, the charity developed a fully
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Today MBRRACE-UK have published their Perinatal Mortality Surveillance report. MBRRACE-UK investigates deaths of women, birthing people and babies in the UK during or shortly after pregnancy. Today’s report reviews the deaths of babies born in the UK between 1st January and 31st December 2024. As always, our thoughts are with the families of the babies
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“The moment I held my babies for the first time was surreal. Yet with my son, I remember not feeling right[…]Thankfully, I didn’t have a seizure, but those first few moments with my son were stolen from me because I didn’t trust my body, because of my epilepsy.” – Kathryn’s experience This week is Epilepsy
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This week is the seventh annual Black Maternal Health Awareness Week, led by Five X More. This year’s theme is ‘Leading with Solutions, Not Trauma,’ and each day highlights key topics including clinical signs, awareness-raising, and positive experiences. There are still stark differences in maternity care for pregnant mothers and birthing people. Most babies are
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