Over 90 real stories of loss, 10 months of campaigning and one of the biggest ever reports about miscarriage and baby loss in the UK. Stylist sat down with Health Secretary Wes Striating as he backs our campaign.
Content note: this article contains descriptions of pregnancy and baby loss.
In early March we finally got the call we’d been waiting months for. The secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Striating, would like to meet us to discuss our Every Loss Counts campaign. Five days and many logistical headaches later, Stylist brought together pregnancy loss advocates and charity representatives to share our Every Loss Counts report with the person charged with overhauling the NHS. The report is a hefty tome we’ve been working on for months, filled with stories from you, our readers, about your experiences of baby loss and the four recommendations for positive change we are asking Mr. Striating to commit to based on your stories.
It’s been 10 months since we launched our in partnership with the UK’s leading charity funding research to make pregnancy and birth safe. Our mission is to amplify the conversation around pregnancy loss and demand better informed care so that no person is left to figure out a way through on their own.
We launched with four pledges: to lead the conversation on our platforms, to demand that we officially count miscarriages in England (at present, there’s no official data on how common miscarriages are), to encourage workplace miscarriage training as standard and to get our campaign in front of the new Labor government so that we could enact real change. On that sunny Wednesday morning, we did exactly what we promised. We gave women who had experienced loss the chance to be heard, and asked our health secretary to listen. The mood in the room was triumphant, supportive and hopeful.
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