My Sister’s Baby
Across the world, women are all connected through the experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
My Sister’s Baby is an initiative for women during their pregnancy to journey alongside and support a ‘sister’ in East Africa who is also expecting a baby.
Through your support, a woman from remote or under-resourced areas in Ethiopia and Tanzania (and soon Uganda!) will be able to give birth safely in a maternity hospital – including her antenatal and post-natal checkups, and an emergency caesarean section if required.
Every day, more than 700 woman die trying to give birth. Most of these deaths occur in Africa, and the majority are preventable – if only women had access to maternal healthcare.
For every death, another 20 women suffer an injury. One of the most devastating injuries in an obstetric fistula – a hole caused by obstructed labour.
Skilled care, before, during and after childbirth, saves the lives of women and their newborn babies.
Thank you for enabling women in East Africa to receive safe and dignified medical care during their pregnancy and birth.
Please consider sharing this great initiative with your midwives, ob-gyn or local health practice.
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Information for Obstetrics and Gynaecology Practitioners
“Welcome to My Sister’s Baby, a chance for O&Gs in clinical practice to increase the impact of their work in the wider world. The official figures from the UN are that one in every 185 pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa will die during pregnancy or birth. We can influence those figures one mother at a time. By encouraging our patients and their wider families to reach out to another woman, pregnant at the same time as them but under very different circumstances, our families can make that woman’s pregnancy journey a safe one. It’s a real and achievable life saving goal.
It’s been a popular initiative in my practice and for some women, seeing it on my website has been the reason they’ve come to see me. We can provide you with links to support materials to make this easier to implement in your practice. This is very close to my heart, and I would love to see this grow, enabling Dr Andrew Browning AM and his team at the Barbara May Foundation to do even more.” – Associate Professor John Keogh
