Baby Lifeline’s Community Midwife Bags made an appearance on BBC One’s Countryfile yesterday (Sunday 15 January 2023), as midwives were filmed getting ready to attend out-of-hospital births.
Countryfile covers the “people, places and stories making news in the British Countryside”, and this week’s programme featured members Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s maternity team, who spoke about their work within rural communities.
Baby Lifeline’s developed its Community Midwife Bags to provide a gold standard for maternity equipment. The maternity safety charity brought together a group of experts, including midwives, paramedics, obstetricians, pharmacists, and neonatologists, who helped design and develop a bag that would be easily transportable, and contain everything needed to care for women and birthing people during childbirth, including in emergency situations.
Baby Lifeline has supplied more than 1,250 of its Community Midwife Bags to more than 130 healthcare providers across the UK and Channel Islands; and more than 160 bags are now being used by midwives and doctors working in some of the most dangerous frontline areas of Ukraine, thanks to the charity’s Ukraine Appeal.
Judy Ledger, Founder and Chief Executive of Baby Lifeline, said:
“It was a wonderful surprise to see our Community Midwife Bags on the BBC on a Sunday evening. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s midwives were filmed checking the various labelled compartments of their Baby Lifeline’s bags as they prepared to attend out-of-hospital births.
“The Baby Lifeline team designed the bags so they could be easily pulled along or carried as a rucksack, so it was great to see individual midwives using them in the ways that suited them best.
“Well done to the Countryfile for sharing midwives’ hard work and dedication with BBC viewers – and thank you to the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust team for showing Baby Lifeline’s bags in action!”
To find out more about Baby Lifeline’s Community Midwife Bags, contact info@babylifeline.org.uk
