Published today, the Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 & Tommy's Joint Policy Unit Saving Babies' Lives report shows the current scale of #PregnancyLoss and #BabyLoss in the UK is not inevitable. The report looks at what needs to change. Read more: bit.ly/3ymezrB

Brilliant day visiting @tommysbham with the DHSC today - hearing all about research-based improvements to miscarriage care. And look at what greeted us at the train station!

Hive mind - we have a wonderful enthusiastic midwife who’s interested in getting into research in maternity inequalities. She has 8 weeks funded time to investigate further - who should I put her in touch with? #maternityresearch

Please, spare a thought for the huge British/French dual national population having to cope with 3 major elections in 8 days, we're very tired

Exciting PhD studentship funded by Tommy's Anna David @DocBruggsBunn QMUL Sci & Eng News to repair membranes & prevent preterm birth with Little Heartbeats #PPROM support & awareness Call for scientists Future Investigators of Regenerative Medicine Nature Reviews Bioengineering Apply before 22 July 2024 sems.qmul.ac.uk/research/stude…

Our biomarkers will include Actim Partus to be introduced soon  (we are also developing a quantitative version with Actim) and other measures of cervical stiffness (Pregnolia). Please do retweet.

Registered for a nursery place at 5 months pregnant - 45th on the waiting list to pay nearly £2k per month for childcare in two years' time. I *think* there may be some structural issues at play.

It is easy to say what a new government should do, but we want to go further than that and say how. So this week we have built on AMRC manifesto asks to provide thinking behind how to get the best out of UK research – & what would make the most difference to charity funders🧵👇

Combined holding my breath and screaming during this routine! Congrats Bryony Page you massive star! 🥇🥈🥉

telling all of my friends with small daughters that if they say "i wanna learn about dinosaurs and jump on a trampoline" this is in fact a perfectly fine career path

Thank you @hazard_leah for sending us a copy of Womb!

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A good articulation of what has felt very non-stop this year: "Addressing the epidemic of male violence [will first] require fostering the belief that any of this matters. We long ago decided as a society that an average of two women being killed every week is inevitable."

1 in 2 adults are affected by baby loss. It's encouraging to hear a debate on #BabyLoss gain cross-party support and hear Olivia Blake MP speak about our work to date. We look forward to working with all MPs to keep this issue on the agenda and to improve maternity outcomes.

Things that may also have "gone too far": access to contraception; child mortality rate reductions; standards of - and costs of - living?

Meanwhile over on the NHS consultation website, we have a new winner