Baby Loss Awareness Week

While restrictions have eased throughout 2021, the impact and pressures of the pandemic have still been very much felt by families and healthcare professionals alike. That’s why this year’s theme, wellbeing, remains vitally important – looking after yourself and those around you in order to process grief, loss and other challenges.

We refuse to accept that 1 in 4 pregnancies have to end in loss or premature birth. Last year, your generosity during Baby Loss Awareness Week directly supported our work on lifesaving research, changing government and NHS policy and providing expert care and information. We’ve been proud take more steps forward in our mission to make pregnancy and birth safer for every family in the UK and to ensure that preventing baby loss remains at the top of the Government’s agenda:

• Publishing our Miscarriage Matters research findings through The Lancet, challenging the rules that say parents must have 3 losses in a row, and developing guidelines for a National Miscarriage Care Package.
• Responding to maternity safety issues, working to make sure families weren’t put at greater risk of pregnancy and baby loss by changes caused by Covid-19.
• Answering 1,582 calls and 4,198 emails via our midwife support line, a 56% increase on pre-pandemic volumes, and providing advice and emotional support to those who needed it.
• Launching a joint policy unit with Sands, with the aim of halving the number of UK baby deaths by 2030.

With your help, we’ll continue this work to save babies’ lives and ensure the best possible care throughout pregnancy and loss, no matter where you might live.