A bench has been built in the memorial garden of a Plymouth cemetary as a place of reflection for parents who have lost babies. It was the idea of one of the clients of baby loss charity Pregnancy Crisis Care and it was donated to Plymouth Cemeteries and Crematorium through fundraising and sponsorships. Jane Frajbis,...
Catriona Renton BBC Scotland News BBC Sarah Brown wanted to look into the causes and consequences of premature birth When Sarah and Gordon Brown’s daughter Jennifer died days after her birth in January 2002 there was an outpouring of support from the public. The former prime minister was chancellor of the exchequer at the time...
A “miracle” baby has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb. The baby’s mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister’s womb in 2023 – in what was then the UK’s only successful womb transplant. Mum Grace and her...
Fergus Walsh Medical Editor Watch: New mum Grace (left) and her sister Amy (right) talk about the “miracle” of baby Amy A “miracle” baby has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb. The baby’s mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Laboratories facility is engaging in unsanitary practices similar to those that led...
Liverpool Daily Post/PA A funeral for the unidentified newborn was arranged after a collection by a local Asda supermarket “When I heard about it and I saw her name, I thought ‘that’s not that woman – that’s not the same woman that we’ve lived by all these years’.” That was how a resident of a...
Jonny Humphries BBC News, Liverpool BBC Joanne Sharkey was identified after her older son’s DNA was entered onto a national database A mother who killed her newborn baby boy in 1998 while in the grip of severe post-natal depression has been given a suspended sentence after a judge decided the case “called for compassion”. Joanne...
BBC A woman in her 30s has been arrested after a newborn baby boy was found dead in a carrier bag in Notting Hill, west London, last week. The woman, believed to be the baby’s mother, was detained on Saturday on suspicion of concealing a birth, neglect and infanticide, the Metropolitan Police has said. She...
Aimee Green Aimee Green set up Luna’s Fund after losing her daughter in 2017 A charity believes all mothers should be celebrated on Mothering Sunday and urged those who have experienced baby loss to be “gentle” on themselves. Aimee Green, founder and chief executive officer of Luna’s Fund, said Mother’s Day was a “complex day”...
A woman gave birth to a baby on a street in Bangkok shortly after a hospital evacuation following tremors from an earthquake in Myanmar. The patient was lying on a stretcher as hospital staff surrounded her and delivered the baby. Patients from both King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and BNH Hospital were gathered in a park,...
The body of a newborn baby has been found in west London, the Metropolitan Police has said. Officers were called at 12:46 GMT on Tuesday to Powis Gardens in Notting Hill following a report that the body of a baby had been found in a bag left outside All Saints Church. London Ambulance Service attended...
Jonny Humphries BBC News Reporting fromLiverpool Crown Court Cheshire Constabulary Joanne Sharkey told police she felt like she could not face becoming a mother when she killed her newborn son The mother of a baby boy who was found dead in a woodland in 1998 told police she felt “relief” at her arrest after living...