15 h. ago Dirty wards, women bleeding in bathrooms and avoidable baby deaths: Maternity probe head blasts ‘unacceptable care’

Report shows NHS has recorded a ‘staggering’ 748 recommendations relating to maternity and neonatal care in the past decade

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17 h. ago Dirty wards, women bleeding in bathrooms and avoidable baby deaths: Maternity probe heads blasts ‘unacceptable care’

Report shows NHS has recorded a ‘staggering’ 748 recommendations relating to maternity and neonatal care in the past decade

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18 h. ago Unacceptable care and women left to ‘bleed out’ in bathrooms – maternity review

Baroness Valerie Amos has so far spoken to more than 170 families for her review into maternity care.

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19 h. ago ‘There’s no longer a heartbeat’: the couple whose twins were stillborn – and the ‘birth keeper’ they blame

Soon-to-be parents hired a woman they believed would act as a licensed midwife. But she in fact belonged to a radical society that was linked to baby deaths around the world• Read more of the Guardian’s investigations into the Free Birth SocietyErnesta Chirwa recalls the jarring moment the woman she presumed was her midwife said something unexpected. Caitlyn Collins was driving her to hospital after 6am, on 15 February 2022. “She said,” says Chirwa, who is 30 and lives in Cape Town, “Please don’t mention to the nurses that we were trying to have a home birth.”Chirwa was in too much pain to speak – she was in active labour. But she remembers feeling surprised. “Why,” Chirwa recalls, “is she asking us not to mention that we were trying to have a home birth?” Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Nothing prepared me for scale of unacceptable NHS maternity care, head of national review says

Report shows NHS has recorded a ‘staggering’ 748 recommendations relating to maternity and neonatal care in the past decade

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21 h. ago Head of the national NHS review into maternity services in England says 'nothing prepared her for the scale of unacceptable care'

Leading the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation (NMNI), Baroness Valerie Amos found changes to services have been 'too slow', despite being necessary and urgent.

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40 h. ago Beauty queen beat boyfriend’s toddler son to death because 'she wanted own baby'

A student has been found guilty of murder after brutally killing her boyfriends young son - all out of jealousy that she wanted her own baby with him and "resented" being a step mum

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53 h. ago Killer beauty queen weeps before she receives LIFE SENTENCE for beating another woman's baby to death in college dorm

Trinity Madison Poague, 20, was found guilty of felony murder and aggravated battery for the death of 18-month-old Romeo 'JD' Angeles at Georgia Southwestern State University.

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58 h. ago Mum arrested over baby death says she has 'no guilt' after tot dies in rubbish strewn crib

Carrie Marie Murray and Mitchell Chesnut Murray, both 31, have been arrested over the alleged murder of their 18-month-old daughter.

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66 h. ago Jack Osbourne's glimmer of hope as he told dad Ozzy baby news before his death

Jack Osbourne is set to become a father for the fifth time and he was able to share his happy news with his dad Ozzy Osbourne before his tragic death in July

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3 d. ago Grandad and baby 'mauled to death by pitbulls' as police shoot dogs

The baby was still being mauled by a pack of pitbulls when police arrived at the property in Tullahoma, Tennessee, but officers could not save her

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4 d. ago German man, 42, is charged with murder after Heathrow airport arrest over teenager's death 14 years on from suffering injuries as a baby

Lejunae Wood, 42, from Wuppertal, was arrested on suspicion of murdering Leajunne Wood, 14, at Heathrow Airport on Thursday.

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6 d. ago POORSTACY tragedy takes twist as baby mama is arrested on shock child neglect charge

An affidavit from authorities in Boca Raton cited information provided by Grikstas, 24, in an interview after POORSTACY's death Monday, via a self-inflicted gunshot.

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6 d. ago POORSTACY tragedy takes twist as baby mama arrested on shock child neglect charge

An affidavit from authorities in Boca Raton cited information provided by Grikstas, 24, in an interview after POORSTACY's death Monday, via a self-inflicted gunshot.

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6 d. ago Death of Irish mother in ‘free birth’ reveals how poor maternity care is pushing women towards extreme influencers

Women in Ireland and the UK linked to Free Birth Society among scores around world to have suffered loss or serious harm after birthsFull story: How the FBS is linked to baby deaths around the worldOver a weekend in late June 2024, Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the Free Birth Society, hosted a festival on her 21-hectare (53-acre) property in North Carolina. It was a celebratory gathering for FBS, a multimillion-dollar business that promotes a radical approach to giving birth without medical support.Promotional footage from the Matriarch Rising festival shows Saldaya dancing beside her private lake, wearing a crown. That same weekend, more than 3,000 miles away, in Dundalk, a town on the east coast of Ireland, Naomi James, bled to death after freebirthing her son. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Father who shook baby daughter to death has murder sentence increased

Holford was “heavily intoxicated with cannabis” at the time of the fatal attack on his daughter

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7 d. ago Steve Bruce celebrates arrival of new grandchild a year on from heartbreaking death of grandson

The Bruce family were left devastated by the death of baby Madison last October at the age of four months but Steve's daughter Amy has now given birth to baby Beau

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8 d. ago Holly Hagan ‘reveals gender’ of her unborn baby after announcing pregnancy and sister’s tragic death

HOLLY Hagan has ‘revealed the gender’ of her unborn baby following the heartbreaking loss of her younger sister. The TV personality, 33, who is expecting a baby with her husband Jacob Blyth, announced her pregnancy last week, calling her child the “little rainbow amongst the storm”.  Holly took to TikTok to post a 'gender reveal' using...

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1 week ago School teacher dies day after baby girl's death as tributes pour in for tragic mum

Heartbreaking tributes have poured in for teacher Aoife Bird who passed the day after her newborn baby, Ailbhe, died.

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1 week ago Woman dies one day after death of her newborn baby as tributes flood in for beloved mum

Aoife Bird (née Oates) and her newborn daughter Ailbhe died just a day apart following a sudden illness. Aoife was a respected teacher at Ashbourne Community School, where she taught Spanish, Business and SEN

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