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The baby boy’s death was not reported to be connected to his mother’s drug use, but a report has criticised the seven-week delay in making contact with the woman.
This is according to a new series published by academics today which points to the many benefits of effective and high-quality midwifery for women and their babies.
One in three newborns do not have a birth certificate by their first birthday and researchers say this reflects the world’s acceptance that these deaths are inevitable.
A Dublin hospital has secured a court order to withdraw life-support from a severely brain-damaged baby whose his young mother died after delivery. As the child’s parents were unmarried, the father was not deemed the legal guardian.
The Irish Heart Foundation is calling for people to ask for the cards, which contain genetic data from children born between 1984 and 2002, to be returned to them.
The post-mortem has revealed that the body found in Scunthorpe was that of a newborn baby boy. On Wednesday a teenage girl came forward, saying she was the child’s mother.
AMID REPORTS THAT ministers are engaged in a “cabinet coup” to force Theresa May’s resignation, supporters of the Prime Minister have said it won’t help the Brexit process.
Two British newspapers have reported that a number of cabinet ministers want May to step aside to make way for someone else.
Chancellor Philip Hammond told Sky News this morning, however, that the idea of ousting May is “self-indulgent” and that parliament “has to come together” to make a decision on Brexit.
So, today we’re asking: Should Theresa May be forced to step down as PM?
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