Mothercare, the UK’s leading global retailer for parents and young children, has chosen Tommy’s to be its official charity of the year as part of their drive to support the good health and well-being of mums-to-be, parents and children.
Tommy’s CEO, Jane Brewin, says,
“We are delighted that Mothercare has chosen to support Tommy’s and work with us to achieve our mission: to make pregnancy and birth safer for all. Mothercare and Tommy’s feels like the perfect alliance – we both put parents and babies at the heart of everything we do, and we are both leaders in our field. I truly believe that we can work together to do something very special for families.”
Mark Newton Jones, Mothercare CEO commented;
‘We are delighted to be in partnership that plays such an important role in the lives of parents and their children, providing invaluable support to families and local communities. We look forward to a very successful and exciting year working with them on their campaigns.”
Why support Tommy's
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Sarah's Story
“One of the hardest things about the miscarriages for us was not knowing why they had happened, nobody could answer that question for us.”
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Childlessness after miscarriage: the untold story
British author, trainee integrative psychotherapist and the founder of Gateway Women, Jody Day, tells us about the often untold story behind childlessness after miscarriage.
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80 percent of my pregnancies have ended in death and I felt like they were telling me those babies didn't matter.
I phoned Tommy's and I cannot remember the midwife's name who I spoke to but she was utterly, utterly amazing. Incredible.
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'Our experience to date had taken the magic of pregnancy away from us'
I am extremely grateful that we had a second positive outcome, and our beautiful family was complete
Read about our work
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Other research
While Tommy’s concentrate most of our research on stillbirth, miscarriage and premature birth, we know that work is needed in many other areas to make sure as many babies as possible are born alive and well.
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New tests and technologies research
Tommy’s are taking advantage of technology to develop new ways of making sure as many babies as possible are born healthy, from new scanning techniques to training simulators for amniocentesis.
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Mental health and wellbeing research
Tommy’s understand pregnancy complications cause far more than just physical harm. We want to understand the best way to support women’s mental health both during pregnancy and following loss.
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Cholestasis research
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, or obstetric cholestasis, is the most common liver disease affecting women during pregnancy.
