This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Petition Monitoring in pregnancy for every woman who has received cervical treatments
Myself & my fiancé lost our beautiful baby boy, Oscar, after he was born prematurely at 24 weeks.
My waters broke due to an incompetent cervix that was never checked or monitored despite having part of my cervix removed after a Lletz procedure.
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The amount of cells that were removed from my cervix were classified as low risk and therefore no further monitoring or checks were made during pregnancy. Had I been monitored my incompetent cervix would have been diagnosed and our perfect son may be here today.
I am petitioning for every pregnant woman who has undergone any type of treatment compromising their cervix to be monitored during their pregnancy to prevent baby losses like ours occurring in the future.
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MPs debate baby loss
On Thursday 14 October, MPs debated baby loss.
You can watch the debate on Parliament TV: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e285a80b-db23-423f-97ea-2e312f4bb015?in=11:42:33
You can read the debate on the Hansard website: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-10-13/debates/721CDF48-A721-4408-AA94-BE694FA1E7FC/BabyLoss?utm_source=petitions
Antoinette Sandbach MP and Will Quince MP successfully applied to the Back Bench Business Committee for time to debate this issue in the House of Commons. This is one way back bench MPs can get debates.
You can watch their application for the debate on Parliament TV: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/026fecdf-8a10-45b3-af5a-60467c6943a7?in=15:27:24
You can find out more about the Back Bench Business Committee on its website: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/backbench-business-committee/