Saving female babies

Saving Babies in North England (SaBiNE)

A four month intensive training programme of the Growth Assessment Protocol was implemented across 3 North of England regions in 2015, with the help of designated clinical midwives seconded for the duration of the project. The intervention resulted in significant increases in antenatal referral and detection of babies born small for gestational age. During the same period, the stillbirth rates ...

First Opinion: Babies, Babies, and More Babies

Saving babies? Revisiting the effect of very low birth weight classification.

We reconsider the effect of very low birth weight classification on infant mortality. We demonstrate that the estimates are highly sensitive to the exclusion of observations in the immediate vicinity of the 1,500-g threshold, weakening the confidence in the results originally reported in Almond, Doyle, Kowalski, and Williams (2010).

Saving the lives of South Africa's mothers, babies, and children: can the health system deliver?

South Africa is one of only 12 countries in which mortality rates for children have increased since the baseline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 1990. Continuing poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic are important factors. Additionally, suboptimum implementation of high-impact interventions limits programme effectiveness; between a quarter and half of maternal, neonatal, and child de...

Saving babies’ lives project impact and results evaluation (SPiRE): a mixed methodology study

BACKGROUND Reducing stillbirth and early neonatal death is a national priority in the UK. Current evidence indicates this is potentially achievable through application of four key interventions within routine maternity care delivered as the National Health Service (NHS) England's Saving Babies' Lives care bundle. However, there is significant variation in the degree of implementation of the car...