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    • ▽△Who we are
      • ▽△Tommy's news and views
        • Beautiful rainbow photoshoot for parents pregnant after six miscarriages
        • Chlamydia and miscarriage
        • Confessions of a Junk Dealer
        • Powerful short film project about a father's response to stillbirth
        • Tommy's Birmingham centre to pave the way towards better maternity care
        • We need to raise awareness about pre-eclampsia
      • Trustees and patrons
      • Who's who at Tommy's
      • Media requests
      • Contact us
    • ▽△Why we exist
      • Prematurity
      • ▽△Stillbirth
        • Your stillbirth stories
      • ▽△Miscarriage
        • ▽△#MisCOURAGE campaign
          • Miscarrying became normal
      • ▽△Statistics about pregnancy
        • Miscarriage statistics
        • Premature birth statistics
        • Stillbirth statistics
      • Baby Loss Awareness Week 2016
      • Tommy's stories
    • ▽△What we do
      • ▽△Our research
        • ▽△Miscarriage research
          • ▽△Miscarriage research centre - strategy and projects
            • Using fetal DNA to find reasons for miscarriage
            • Diagnosing chromosomal and genetic causes of miscarriage
            • Looking at the lining of the womb to find out if a woman is at risk of miscarriage
            • Can sitagliptin help increase stem cells in women who have suffered recurrent miscarriages?
            • Can bacteria affect the risk of miscarriage?
            • CONCEIVE: how does the health of your heart affect the risk of miscarriage?
            • The effect of sperm damage in miscarriage
            • How does the immune system affect the chance of miscarriage?
            • Tommy's Net
            • The EPOS study
            • Establishing a national miscarriage network
            • The PIEPE study: looking at the psychological effects of miscarriage
            • Improving miscarriage support for women, partners and family
            • Investing in the future: a clinical training programme for miscarriage
            • The SiM trial: can scratching the lining of the womb encourage health pregnancy?
          • Early miscarriage research centre - introduction
          • Miscarriage research centre - clinicians
          • Get updated when we have referrals information ready
        • ▽△Research into premature birth
          • A 'biobank' to study the genetics of premature birth
          • CLAHRC: a collaboration for leadership in applied health research and care
          • CRADLE: an easy, cheap way to measure blood pressure and detect pregnancy complications in rural communities
          • Control of hypertension in pregnancy (the CHIPS study)
          • Does HPV infection increase the risk of preterm birth?
          • Finding out who’s at risk: how can we predict preterm labour?
          • Finding ways of preventing preterm labour
          • Helping women with chronic heart and blood vessel problems to have safe, healthy pregnancies
          • Infection and fetal development
          • Influences in the womb on the fetal heart
          • Is progesterone a cost-effective way to prevent preterm birth? (the OPPTIMUM trial)
          • Looking at inflammation in the womb
          • Low-cost methods of predicting premature births in rural communities
          • MAVRIC - testing the abdominal stitch
          • Maternal Obesity and Offspring Diabetes (the MOOD study)
          • NifeDipine or Labetalol for treating existing high blood pressure during pregnancy (the PANDA study)
          • PARROT: using placental growth factor to tell if women are at high risk of pre-eclampsia
          • PEACHES: finding out how existing high blood pressure can cause pregnancy complications
          • Potassium channels: a new target for preventing premature birth?
          • Predicting premature labour using the body’s natural defences
          • QUIDS – using fibronectin to find out which women with symptoms of preterm labour are at risk
          • STOPPIT-2: can the Arabin pessary prevent premature birth in twin pregnancies?
          • SuPPoRT: finding the best way to prevent preterm birth in women with short cervixes
          • The London Preterm (premature birth) Surveillance Clinic
          • The Preterm Trials Consortium: using long-term trials to answer difficult questions
          • The QUIPP app: helping doctors decide who is at risk of premature birth
          • The SCOPE study
          • The genetics of premature birth
          • The role of amyloid in pre-eclampsia
          • UPBEAT: how to predict gestational diabetes in obese women
          • Using ultrasound to diagnose infections during pregnancy
          • When should labour be induced in women who develop pre-eclampsia at 34–37 weeks? (the PHOENIX trial)
          • Why does cervical damage cause preterm labour?
        • ▽△Research into stillbirth
          • Research into fetal growth restriction
          • Assessing how healthy babies are when they start moving less than normal (FEMINA2)
          • Can low levels of taurine make stillbirth more likely?
          • Could beetroot juice be used to treat fetal growth restriction?
          • Diabetes and the risk of stillbirth
          • Does arrhythmia cause stillbirth in the babies of women with liver disease?
          • Improving pregnancy outcomes by engaging women in their own safety (the REACH-UK study)
          • Improving support in a pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death (the IMPS study)
          • Inflammation of the placenta as a cause of stillbirth
          • Is fetal growth restriction caused by failure of the placenta to adapt to nutrient demand?
          • MRI techniques to help prevent stillbirth
          • MiNESS – is there a link between stillbirth and a woman’s position going to sleep?
          • Monitoring babies’ movements using the FeHeMo vest
          • Older mothers and the risk of stillbirth
          • PITCHES: can UDCA help prevent stillbirth in women with liver disease?
          • Stillbirth and fetal free haemoglobin
          • Testing for microRNAs to find out when the placenta isn’t working
          • The AFFIRM trial for prevention of stillbirth
          • The DESiGN trial: does the growth assessment protocol (GAP) find which small babies are at risk?
          • The Placenta Clinic
          • The Placental Assessment Predicting Pregnancy Outcome (PAPPO) study
          • The Rainbow Clinic
          • Understanding the link between inflammation, the placenta and stillbirth
          • Undiagnosed lupus and unexplained stillbirth
          • Using MRI to study the placenta
          • Viagra: is it an effective treatment for stillbirth (STRIDER)
          • What is the best way of helping women with very early fetal growth restriction?
        • ▽△Research into health and wellbeing in pregnancy
          • An interactive tool to help women decide whether to use antidepressants during pregnancy
          • Can a dietary supplement protect babies from the effects of maternal obesity?
          • Can hormones in the gut cause diabetes during pregnancy?
          • Developing a training simulator for amniocentesis
          • Does maternal age affect the timing and ease of birth?
          • Does specialist care reduce the number of stillbirths?
          • Enjoy Your Bump: using online tools to improve mental wellbeing during pregnancy
          • Helping pregnant teenagers eat better
          • High blood pressure in children of obese mothers
          • Homing peptides: targeting drugs to the placenta
          • How does maternal obesity affect future generations?
          • Is it safe to use antipsychotics during pregnancy?
          • Labouring position of women who have had an epidural (the BUMPES study)
          • Looking at blood in the umbilical cord to find the missing link between obesity in mother and child
          • Looking at twins from pregnancy to childhood (the TWO study)
          • Metformin and its effects in pregnancy
          • Metformin doesn’t affect fat distribution in mother or baby
          • Obesity and mental health in pregnancy
          • Pregnancy and alcohol use
          • Pregnancy in severely obese women: the Edinburgh Antenatal Metabolic Clinic
          • Reaching young women with smoking cessation messages
          • Recreational running in pregnancy (SPORT)
          • Sickle cell disease and pregnancy
          • Stress and obesity in pregnancy: do stress hormones increase the risk of complications?
          • Sunshine and healthy babies
          • Telemetric monitoring of blood sugar levels in pregnant women with diabetes
          • The Birthplace in England research programme
          • The EU EarlyNutrition study
          • The GOT-IT trial – how effective is glyceryl trinitrate for a retained placenta?
          • The GRACES trial: comparing ways of treating diabetes in pregnancy
          • The HAPPY study: the effects of obese pregnancy on children aged 3-5
          • The Tydeman tube: helping surgeons perform safer caesarean sections
          • The eLIXIR study
          • UPBEAT-TEMPO-HEART: how improving health during pregnancy could lead to healthier hearts in children
          • UPBEAT-TEMPO: does changing lifestyle during pregnancy affect children at age 3-4?
          • UPBEAT: body fat in UPBEAT babies
          • UPBEAT: breastfeeding and obesity
          • UPBEAT: finding out if we can help obese women give birth to babies with less body fat
          • UPBEAT: finding out which obese women will have uncomplicated pregnancies
          • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect blood loss after birth?
          • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect iron levels during pregnancy?
          • UPBEAT: how to tell which babies are too large for their gestational age?
          • UPBEAT: is fat gain during pregnancy linked to diabetes in obese women?
          • UPBEAT: looking at the relation of mothers’ diets with social and demographic factors
          • UPBEAT: the UK Better Eating and Activity Trial
          • UPBEAT: using markers in the blood to tell which women are at risk of diabetes during pregnancy
          • UPBEAT: why are some women with diabetes more likely to suffer pregnancy complications?
          • Understanding changes in the cervix before birth
        • Recent research achievements
        • I would like to take part in a Tommy's trial
        • Measuring our success
        • Our strategy for funding research
        • Research and medical terms explained
        • The impact of our research
        • We raise money to fund our work
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          • The Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
          • Manchester research centre
      • ▽△Our pregnancy information service
        • Tommy's work on diet in pregnancy
        • Tommy's work on exercise in pregnancy
        • Tommy's work on mental health in pregnancy
        • Tommy's work on smoking in pregnancy
        • Tommy's work on weight management
      • 25 years of Tommy's
      • How we use your money
      • Measuring our success
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        • The Arla Big Milk Inspirational Mum
        • The Bepanthen Doting Dad Award
        • The Center Parcs Super Sibling Award
        • The Danone Healthcare Hero Award
        • The Fayre and Square Family Superstar
        • The Little Angels Little Champion Award
        • The Persil Non-Bio & Comfort Pure Angel Award
        • The Seraphine Mum’s Voice Award
      • ▽△Your own event
        • Organise your own Midnight Walk
      • Recycle
      • eBay
      • ▽△In Memory tribute pages
        • Rainbow pom poms for rememberance
      • ▽△Tommy's awards 2017
        • Individual Award winners 2017
        • ‘If the money we raise will help one baby a year make it, we’ll have made our little girl proud’
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          • Selfish Mother
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          • Tommy's and True Capital
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          • Tommy's and Hologic
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          • Tommy's Birmingham centre to pave the way towards better maternity care
          • We need to raise awareness about pre-eclampsia
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          • Premature birth statistics
          • Stillbirth statistics
        • Baby Loss Awareness Week 2016
        • Tommy's stories
      • What we do
        • Our research
          • Miscarriage research
            • Miscarriage research centre - strategy and projects
              • Using fetal DNA to find reasons for miscarriage
              • Diagnosing chromosomal and genetic causes of miscarriage
              • Looking at the lining of the womb to find out if a woman is at risk of miscarriage
              • Can sitagliptin help increase stem cells in women who have suffered recurrent miscarriages?
              • Can bacteria affect the risk of miscarriage?
              • CONCEIVE: how does the health of your heart affect the risk of miscarriage?
              • The effect of sperm damage in miscarriage
              • How does the immune system affect the chance of miscarriage?
              • Tommy's Net
              • The EPOS study
              • Establishing a national miscarriage network
              • The PIEPE study: looking at the psychological effects of miscarriage
              • Improving miscarriage support for women, partners and family
              • Investing in the future: a clinical training programme for miscarriage
              • The SiM trial: can scratching the lining of the womb encourage health pregnancy?
            • Early miscarriage research centre - introduction
            • Miscarriage research centre - clinicians
            • Get updated when we have referrals information ready
          • Research into premature birth
            • A 'biobank' to study the genetics of premature birth
            • CLAHRC: a collaboration for leadership in applied health research and care
            • CRADLE: an easy, cheap way to measure blood pressure and detect pregnancy complications in rural communities
            • Control of hypertension in pregnancy (the CHIPS study)
            • Does HPV infection increase the risk of preterm birth?
            • Finding out who’s at risk: how can we predict preterm labour?
            • Finding ways of preventing preterm labour
            • Helping women with chronic heart and blood vessel problems to have safe, healthy pregnancies
            • Infection and fetal development
            • Influences in the womb on the fetal heart
            • Is progesterone a cost-effective way to prevent preterm birth? (the OPPTIMUM trial)
            • Looking at inflammation in the womb
            • Low-cost methods of predicting premature births in rural communities
            • MAVRIC - testing the abdominal stitch
            • Maternal Obesity and Offspring Diabetes (the MOOD study)
            • NifeDipine or Labetalol for treating existing high blood pressure during pregnancy (the PANDA study)
            • PARROT: using placental growth factor to tell if women are at high risk of pre-eclampsia
            • PEACHES: finding out how existing high blood pressure can cause pregnancy complications
            • Potassium channels: a new target for preventing premature birth?
            • Predicting premature labour using the body’s natural defences
            • QUIDS – using fibronectin to find out which women with symptoms of preterm labour are at risk
            • STOPPIT-2: can the Arabin pessary prevent premature birth in twin pregnancies?
            • SuPPoRT: finding the best way to prevent preterm birth in women with short cervixes
            • The London Preterm (premature birth) Surveillance Clinic
            • The Preterm Trials Consortium: using long-term trials to answer difficult questions
            • The QUIPP app: helping doctors decide who is at risk of premature birth
            • The SCOPE study
            • The genetics of premature birth
            • The role of amyloid in pre-eclampsia
            • UPBEAT: how to predict gestational diabetes in obese women
            • Using ultrasound to diagnose infections during pregnancy
            • When should labour be induced in women who develop pre-eclampsia at 34–37 weeks? (the PHOENIX trial)
            • Why does cervical damage cause preterm labour?
          • Research into stillbirth
            • Research into fetal growth restriction
            • Assessing how healthy babies are when they start moving less than normal (FEMINA2)
            • Can low levels of taurine make stillbirth more likely?
            • Could beetroot juice be used to treat fetal growth restriction?
            • Diabetes and the risk of stillbirth
            • Does arrhythmia cause stillbirth in the babies of women with liver disease?
            • Improving pregnancy outcomes by engaging women in their own safety (the REACH-UK study)
            • Improving support in a pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death (the IMPS study)
            • Inflammation of the placenta as a cause of stillbirth
            • Is fetal growth restriction caused by failure of the placenta to adapt to nutrient demand?
            • MRI techniques to help prevent stillbirth
            • MiNESS – is there a link between stillbirth and a woman’s position going to sleep?
            • Monitoring babies’ movements using the FeHeMo vest
            • Older mothers and the risk of stillbirth
            • PITCHES: can UDCA help prevent stillbirth in women with liver disease?
            • Stillbirth and fetal free haemoglobin
            • Testing for microRNAs to find out when the placenta isn’t working
            • The AFFIRM trial for prevention of stillbirth
            • The DESiGN trial: does the growth assessment protocol (GAP) find which small babies are at risk?
            • The Placenta Clinic
            • The Placental Assessment Predicting Pregnancy Outcome (PAPPO) study
            • The Rainbow Clinic
            • Understanding the link between inflammation, the placenta and stillbirth
            • Undiagnosed lupus and unexplained stillbirth
            • Using MRI to study the placenta
            • Viagra: is it an effective treatment for stillbirth (STRIDER)
            • What is the best way of helping women with very early fetal growth restriction?
          • Research into health and wellbeing in pregnancy
            • An interactive tool to help women decide whether to use antidepressants during pregnancy
            • Can a dietary supplement protect babies from the effects of maternal obesity?
            • Can hormones in the gut cause diabetes during pregnancy?
            • Developing a training simulator for amniocentesis
            • Does maternal age affect the timing and ease of birth?
            • Does specialist care reduce the number of stillbirths?
            • Enjoy Your Bump: using online tools to improve mental wellbeing during pregnancy
            • Helping pregnant teenagers eat better
            • High blood pressure in children of obese mothers
            • Homing peptides: targeting drugs to the placenta
            • How does maternal obesity affect future generations?
            • Is it safe to use antipsychotics during pregnancy?
            • Labouring position of women who have had an epidural (the BUMPES study)
            • Looking at blood in the umbilical cord to find the missing link between obesity in mother and child
            • Looking at twins from pregnancy to childhood (the TWO study)
            • Metformin and its effects in pregnancy
            • Metformin doesn’t affect fat distribution in mother or baby
            • Obesity and mental health in pregnancy
            • Pregnancy and alcohol use
            • Pregnancy in severely obese women: the Edinburgh Antenatal Metabolic Clinic
            • Reaching young women with smoking cessation messages
            • Recreational running in pregnancy (SPORT)
            • Sickle cell disease and pregnancy
            • Stress and obesity in pregnancy: do stress hormones increase the risk of complications?
            • Sunshine and healthy babies
            • Telemetric monitoring of blood sugar levels in pregnant women with diabetes
            • The Birthplace in England research programme
            • The EU EarlyNutrition study
            • The GOT-IT trial – how effective is glyceryl trinitrate for a retained placenta?
            • The GRACES trial: comparing ways of treating diabetes in pregnancy
            • The HAPPY study: the effects of obese pregnancy on children aged 3-5
            • The Tydeman tube: helping surgeons perform safer caesarean sections
            • The eLIXIR study
            • UPBEAT-TEMPO-HEART: how improving health during pregnancy could lead to healthier hearts in children
            • UPBEAT-TEMPO: does changing lifestyle during pregnancy affect children at age 3-4?
            • UPBEAT: body fat in UPBEAT babies
            • UPBEAT: breastfeeding and obesity
            • UPBEAT: finding out if we can help obese women give birth to babies with less body fat
            • UPBEAT: finding out which obese women will have uncomplicated pregnancies
            • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect blood loss after birth?
            • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect iron levels during pregnancy?
            • UPBEAT: how to tell which babies are too large for their gestational age?
            • UPBEAT: is fat gain during pregnancy linked to diabetes in obese women?
            • UPBEAT: looking at the relation of mothers’ diets with social and demographic factors
            • UPBEAT: the UK Better Eating and Activity Trial
            • UPBEAT: using markers in the blood to tell which women are at risk of diabetes during pregnancy
            • UPBEAT: why are some women with diabetes more likely to suffer pregnancy complications?
            • Understanding changes in the cervix before birth
          • Recent research achievements
          • I would like to take part in a Tommy's trial
          • Measuring our success
          • Our strategy for funding research
          • Research and medical terms explained
          • The impact of our research
          • We raise money to fund our work
          • Research centres and teams
            • St Thomas' London (where it all began)
            • The Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
            • Manchester research centre
        • Our pregnancy information service
          • Tommy's work on diet in pregnancy
          • Tommy's work on exercise in pregnancy
          • Tommy's work on mental health in pregnancy
          • Tommy's work on smoking in pregnancy
          • Tommy's work on weight management
        • 25 years of Tommy's
        • How we use your money
        • Measuring our success
      • How to help
        • Give
          • Donate securely online
          • Donate by phone/post
          • Giving through your pay
            • Payroll giving - a guide for employers
            • Payroll giving FAQ
          • Leaving a legacy to Tommy's
          • Trusts and foundations
          • Face to face fundraising
          • Tommy’s25 giving club
        • Run
          • London Landmarks Half Marathon
          • London Marathon
          • Great North Run
          • Royal Parks Half Marathon
          • The British 10k
          • Edinburgh Marathon
          • Great Manchester Run
          • Vitality Bath Half Marathon
          • Brighton Marathon
          • Other races
        • Cycle
          • Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 2017
          • Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 46 2017
          • Nightrider London 2017
          • Nightrider Bristol 2017
          • Nightrider Liverpool 2017
          • Edinburgh Night Ride
          • London to Paris Bike Ride 2017
          • L’Étape du Tour 2016
        • Swim
        • Tommy's events
          • The Baby Races...for mums, dads and babies in buggies
        • Company Award winners
        • Individual Award winners
          • The ASDA Courage Award
          • The Arla Big Milk Inspirational Mum
          • The Bepanthen Doting Dad Award
          • The Center Parcs Super Sibling Award
          • The Danone Healthcare Hero Award
          • The Fayre and Square Family Superstar
          • The Little Angels Little Champion Award
          • The Persil Non-Bio & Comfort Pure Angel Award
          • The Seraphine Mum’s Voice Award
        • Your own event
          • Organise your own Midnight Walk
        • Recycle
        • eBay
        • In Memory tribute pages
          • Rainbow pom poms for rememberance
        • Tommy's awards 2017
          • Individual Award winners 2017
          • ‘If the money we raise will help one baby a year make it, we’ll have made our little girl proud’
        • Working for us
        • Corporate support
          • Charity of the year partnerships
          • Our partners
            • Tommy's and Asda
            • Tommy's and Water Babies
            • Tommy's and Mothercare
            • Tommy's and First Choice
            • Tommy's and Arla
            • Tommy's and Peppa Pig
            • Tommy's, Persil Non-Bio and Comfort Pure
            • Tommy's and Asda Little Angels
            • Tommy's and Huggies
            • Alexander Charles Associates
            • JFG Communications
            • M&G Investments
            • Selfish Mother
            • Tommy's and Baby Sensory
            • Tommy's and CIBC
            • Tommy's and True Capital
            • Tommy's and Center Parcs
            • Tommy's and Baby Ballet
            • Tommy's and Danone Nutricia
            • Tommy's and Hologic
            • Tommy's and Savoo Search, Save and Raise
            • Tommy's and TfL
            • Tommy's and Una
            • Tommy's and Mindshare
            • Tommy's and Swaps Ball
            • Tommy's and Goldman Sachs
          • Ways to help
          • Pregnancy at work
            • Information for employees - members only
              • Antenatal care
              • Glossary of terms and forms
              • Health and safety at work
              • Maternity leave
              • Problems in pregnancy
                • Miscarriage
                • Premature birth
                • Stillbirth
              • Staying healthy
              • Useful contacts
              • Your key calender dates
            • Information for managers - members only
              • Employer's checklist
              • Keeping your pregnant employee safe
              • Maternity leave
              • Maternity pay
              • Problems in pregnancy
                • Miscarriage
                • Premature birth
                • Stillbirth
              • Redundancy or dismissal
              • Returning to work
              • Rights for fathers
              • Supporting your pregnant employee
              • Your employee’s antenatal care
            • Join Tommy's Pregnancy At Work scheme
            • Pregnancy at work members' hub
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            • What can I do about stretch marks?
            • How will I get time off work for all the appointments?
            • I've had an abortion in the past. Is this a problem?
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          • Five ways to survive stress in pregnancy
          • Getting help and support
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            • Mental health myths and facts
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              • We stood at the top of Mount Etna
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