Overview
- She described the experience as "incredibly lonely" and urged greater support for parents affected by prematurity.
- Appearing on The Borne Podcast on Monday, she called for increased research funding and better data on women's and pregnancy health.
- As patron of Borne, she is fronting the Every Week Counts campaign and encouraging parents to share their stories for mutual support.
- She visited Borne’s research laboratories at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital last week to meet scientists working on prematurity.
- The charity cites about 60,000 premature births a year in the UK and 15 million globally, with complications a leading cause of neonatal death while pregnancy and childbirth receive under 2% of medical research funding.