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Maternal deaths are an outrage

"In the 21st century, no woman should have to give her life to give life."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ( Reuters 19 May)

"We must find a way to get maternal mortality recognized as a key indicator of a functioning health system. Let us work together to make sure maternal mortality is a …

MEOWS: Recommended

… use, and the difference they would almost certainly have made to Jessica.

Not everybody always immediately shares my enthusiasm for them. I've been challenged more than once. It has even been suggested to me that the NHS isn't ready for them. Tosh. In December 2007 I learnt that an estimated 10% of NHS Trusts were using them, and that figure is increasing as MEOWS is adopted Trust by Trust, …

Life saving treatment wanted asap

I'm not just blogging blindly; I'm interested in what other people think and say, and I also am interested in how people find this website, and where people are linking to it.

I watch referring sites in my log stats, and often visit back. It was in this way that I came across a parenting forum …

Thank you so much

… risks of a uterine infection, so that instead of thinking that maybe it's a case of flu, they immediately refer themselves back to their midwife or GP, thus saving precious time.

I hope, through the petition, that a large number of other parents and parents-to-be especially agree with this premise, and that together we can show the government that we believe action should be taken now, and …

1-2-3, Go

… yesterday with Dr Gwyneth Lewis, Director of the Maternal Deaths Enquiry for CEMACH. I spoke immediately after her at the conference in Birmingham a few weeks ago, and we had agreed to meet up in the near future.

It was a good opportunity to catch up with what I am doing through Jessica's Trust, and where she wants to go with maternal health, globally as well as domestically. …

Browse Friday's Child

I've just learnt about this widget. It allows you to browse through (if you haven't already read it) a few selected pages from Friday's Child. Click on the page to enlarge it.

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MEOWS

Modified Early Obstetric Warning Score charts are instantly clear and they can save a life. What are they, though?

They are a single sheet chart, with time tracked across the top, where observations - pulse, blood pressure, temperature and a whole host of others - can be marked in the columns …

The reality of maternal mortality: a father's perspective

… pain and barely able to walk, and so I drove her around the corner to our GP. Jessica was seen immediately and referred back to the maternity ward by blue light ambulance.

On the way, her BP crashed and she was redirected to A&E. She was diagnosed with septicaemia and soon moved to Intensive care.

During the next twenty hours or so, I slept little, and shuttled between my home where my …

Anniversary request

… today, a good mother died unnecessarily from an archaic illness. The world may not have noticed immediately, but the three year old boy crying in his bed, the six day old girl feeding in her father's arms and the grieving widower did.

Together the three of us have kicked, screamed and cried at more than one time or another, not necessarily in synchronisation.

We are now building a new life …

Fresh inspiration

Nearly six years ago, Jessica and I bought our first house. It was a big project, and we knew it would be a long term one. We did a lot of refurbishment and decorating together for a couple of years, but it all came to a halt in 2004.

Since then I have done very little myself, rarely finding …