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No.10 has responded to our petition. Or has it?

The Number 10 e-Petitions website has responded to the Maternal Health petition. Or has it?

The response considerately quotes paragraphs from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline Routine postnatal care of women and their babies (2006) which sets out what should happen. …

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 …

What is the point of twittering anyway?

… both signed and alerted their followers, saying respectively

wossy: I am signing this petition. You might like to as well. Give it a look ! http://bit.ly/2zlSfI Read http://bit.ly/kzYuX PLS RT

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and

ferretprincess: RT @jessicastrust: @ferretprincess #uk #maternalhealth petition needs your support: http://bit.ly/2zlSfI Read http://bit.ly/kzYuX & PLS RT …

Look at the bigger picture

Click the picture to enlarge it, then please sign our petition, if you haven't already.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/maternalhealth/

Mrs Brown gives away a free plug

… hope she realises that too many mothers die in this country as well, but she hasn't yet signed my petition to her husband, although you can.

Thank you to @StudyingOnline and @marketingwizdom for drawing it to my attention.

On twitter

I tweet a mix of personal, parenting and Jessica's Trust information, links, news and chat: twitter.com/jessicastrust

If you have arrived here from the jessicastrust profile you may be interested in some more information:

Jessica's Trust on twitter

Who am I?

I am Ben Palmer, a …

Life saving treatment wanted asap

… to read the information contained herein and, if they feel as strongly as she does, to sign the petition.

I was, though, dismayed to read a third reply to her post, from another mum, who didn't think that MEOWS charts were necessarily a good thing. She felt they could lead to unjustified intervention, use of prophylactic antibiotics, and only benefit 1 in half a million women.

Oh how I …

Thank you so much

Thank you to every one who has already signed this new petition.

It is particularly encouraging to know that not just friends and family of mine/Jessica's have signed it but many others as well - including midwives and doctors - showing that there is real need and desire for simple change that can have such a positive impact on lives.

I'd really …

Petition Graph

Our petition on the Downing Street website started on 3 February 2009, and will close after nine months.

More information about the petition

This graph is tracking the number of signatures.

Purely for fun.

Don't miss the bear

… 2009, in their evaluation forms. To underline the purpose of Jessica's Trust, the campaign and our petition, I thought I'd share a few:

Jessica's story highlighted the need for MEOWS on the postnatal wards

Jessica's story of tragedy shows the importance of how not to miss the bear moon-walking amidst the data.

High quality communication, referral & follow ups is vital to good …