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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– By Dr Abaigh McKee, Research & Development Manager at Baby Lifeline Baby Lifeline has recently been working with colleagues at the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, and community organisation Coventry Empowered African Women’s Group (CEAWG) in a participatory research project funded by the University of Warwick. The aim of the project is to
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“There is no moment more critical in a woman’s life than the journey into motherhood and yet for far too many Black women in the UK, that journey is marked by fear, dismissal and unequal care.” – Five X More Black Maternity Experience Report 2025 Women’s health organisation Five X More published their second Black
MBRRACE-UK’s State of the Nation report, published yesterday, looked at perinatal deaths of babies born in the UK in 2023. This includes babies that died after 24 weeks’ gestation, stillbirths, and babies that died within 28 days of life. The figures do not include terminations. At Baby Lifeline we are committed to making care safer and
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The latest confidential enquiry by MBRRACE-UK, published today, focuses on the care of recent migrant women who did not have English as a first language, and who experienced a stillbirth or neonatal death. The research reviewed babies that died in 2022. The report states that the overwhelming majority of women whose baby died could have
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Today’s MBRRACE-UK report – Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care – looks at the causes of death for mothers from 2020-2022. As always, as we read the report, our thoughts go out to the families who have lost their loved ones. Tragically the report shows that more women died than in previous years, and many of
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MBRRACE have today published their State of the Nation report which looked at perinatal deaths of babies born in the UK in 2022. The report found: The stillbirth rate has decreased since 2022, but there has been an increase in neonatal mortality for the very smallest babies Despite improvements, inequalities in perinatal mortality rates by
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Sara LedgerHead of Research and Development, Baby Lifeline Ahead of the election on Thursday, a group of experts at Imperial College in London have rated the leading parties’ manifestos and their implications for Women’s Health against 15 key priorities. What the analysis shows is that progress still needs to be made on prioritising Women’s Health
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Baby Lifeline supported a landmark event in June 2024: the first South Asian Maternal Health Conference, organised by national law firm Irwin Mitchell and led by Geeta Nayar. Geeta, who has lived experience of perineal injury, addressed the room at the start of the day by stating the need to improve care for South Asian
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Baby Lifeline proudly sponsored the Motherhood Group’s second Black Maternal Health Conference on 18th March 2024 in London. The event brought together community members, healthcare providers, policymakers and mothers to address systemic racism in Black women’s health. The day was opened and closed by Sandra Igwe, CEO and Founder of the Motherhood Group, and member
