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 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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Baby Lifeline has submitted evidence to the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, an independent review set up by the UK government to improve safety and care across maternity and neonatal services in England. At Baby Lifeline, we are unique in that we bring together the voices and expertise of clinicians, safety specialists, legal professionals, and
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The report of the independent national assessment of maternity and neonatal services in Wales, titled The Path to Safer Beginnings in Wales, was published yesterday, 25th February 2026. The assessment was commissioned by Welsh health secretary Jeremy Miles in response to ongoing concerns about safety, culture, and standards of care, and was led by an
Baby Lifeline welcomes the publication of the Interim Report of the Independent Investigation into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England, and thanks Baroness Amos and her team for the depth of engagement with both families and staff. The themes identified – capacity pressures, workforce strain, cultural challenges, racism and discrimination, and poor responses when harm occurs
