Full paper just out. dx.doi.org/10.1111/aogs.1… If your preterm birth is preceded by an emergency Caesarean section, you are 10 times more likely to have a recurrence even with a cerclage in place. Please help recruit to the CRAFT trial.

Huge congratulations to Lisa Story on receiving an National Institute for Health and Care Research Advanced Fellowship! The award will support Dr Story's research looking to find a way to predict complications from preterm birth. Read more about the project at bit.ly/LSFellowship.

Miscarriages are common. Vaccination should be common. They are not related. No evidence Covid vaccine raises risk of miscarriage, MHRA says theguardian.com/society/2021/a…

It is heartbreaking doing ward rounds of these pregnant women knowing vaccination could have prevented them getting so sick Young, fit women, many delivered pre-term We must continue to discuss the vaccine with each pregnant woman we see @nelson_piercy anitaobsmed RoyalCollegeObsGyn

Big thank you to all sites for recruiting 2200 women with verified caesarean dilatation in 90% of participants! We are half way there now! Andrew H Shennan OBE Lisa Story @JennyCarter_33 Anna David Nigel Simpson Natalie Suff

Key message from Alan Jobe at #ukpretermbirth2021 re steroid administration in pregnancy summarised in this slide - beneficial for babies who are then born preterm, but not good for those born at term!

Inspiring proposal of a #personalized third trimester ultrasound screening for #fetal #growth #sga #iugr by Ioannis Papastefanou & Kypros Nicolaides #FetalMedicineFoundation #FMF2021

We've only gone and done it! confirmation that we have enough data to answer CSTICH. Database lock Friday as we chase the last few. Only 6 forms out of 2048 unaccounted for. THANK YOU to all the HCPs and especially the women who made this happen.

Congratulations everyone 2645 recruits to the observational study to help us understand sPTB risk in women with in-labour CS history in 39 sites across the UK! Well done Birmingham for top recruitment in 2021 closely followed by Bath Andrew H Shennan OBE katie morris

🤩🤩 We're so E X C I T E D to reveal... thanks to stakeholder engagement ... we have developed the ENCOUNTER app prototype! Watch our video here 👇youtu.be/KH-ze-wI4PQ HRB-TMRN @NUIGalwayMed @hsru_aberdeen Linda Biesty Katie Gillies Declan Devane Sandra Galvin, PhD

Check out our updated website kcl.ac.uk/research/craft

3097 recruits so far thanks to the hard work of all 40 sites!

What a fantastic April so far…our fabulous team helping 11 more women be part of studies running here at Bradford! Very proud!!! BTHFT Mat Research Giant PANDA CRAFT_STUDY The TTTS Foundation (TTTS, TAPS, SIUGR, TRAP) and the Pursuit Trial!

Brilliant recruitment thank you to all sites for your dedication to CRAFT! Almost there now!

We are celebrating having recruited 78 women into CRAFT_STUDY, evaluating subsequent pregnancy risk of preterm birth in women with a history of the previous caesarean section in labour. Smiles all round with PI Dr. Naeem and Research Midwife Mel 👏😊👏

Thanks to everyone for completing their data and queries. We will be publishing results soon

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