Nothing can remove families’ pain and grief following pregnancy loss or the death of a baby, but high-quality care from professionals at the time can have a huge impact on their wellbeing, in the short term and for the rest of their lives.
Please email your MP and ask them to sign up to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Baby Loss. Having more MPs engaged and involved is important in making sure issues around pregnancy loss and the death of a baby are raised in Parliament.
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You can use this form to put together an email to your MP to raise an issue with them. Please add your details so we can find your local MP.
You may want to ask them to write to the Government about care in your local area, invite them to a local event, or even ask if they will meet you to discuss your concerns.
432 fewer babies would have died in 2019 if stillbirth and neonatal death rates for Black and Asian babies had been the same as for White babies, Sands has estimated.
This year for Baby Loss Awareness Week, we’re asking MPs to write to the Minister, Maria Caulfield MP, calling on her department to fund an urgent enquiry into the deaths of Asian babies.
On Thursday 23 September, MPs will gather for the annual Baby Loss Awareness Week debate in the House of Commons*.
On Tuesday 20 July, MPs will come together to debate what action is needed to meet the Government’s National Ambition to halve the number of babies dying in England by 2025.
The Pregnancy and Baby Charities Network will be taking this opportunity to highlight what needs to be done to make this the safest place in the world to have a baby.
All women pregnant again following the death of a baby should be offered the same maternity team to care for them and their baby, throughout pregnancy, birth and afterwards.
Known as ‘Continuity of Carer’, this model of care helps save lives and create emotional and psychological safety for mothers and partners.
All women pregnant again following the death of a baby should be offered the same maternity team to care for them and their baby, throughout pregnancy, birth and afterwards.
Known as ‘Continuity of Carer’, this model of care helps save lives and create emotional and psychological safety for mothers and partners.
All women pregnant again following the death of a baby should be offered the same maternity team to care for them and their baby, through pregnancy, birth and afterwards.
Known as ‘Continuity of Carer’, this model of care helps save lives and create emotional and psychological safety for mothers and partners.
