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BBC News
30-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Rosie Wrighting MP calls for bereavement suites in new maternity units
A proposal to ensure bespoke bereavement suites are built into all new maternity units has been brought before Labour MP for Kettering, Rosie Wrighting, presented her Maternity Units Bill on Tuesday, in the House of bill would make it a legal requirement for newly built maternity units to include private bereavement spaces, ensuring grieving families are not placed alongside those experiencing the joy of childbirth."[Losing a baby] is made more difficult, when [mothers] experience this in a maternity ward... surrounded by mothers and families celebrating new life," Wrighting told the Commons. "For parents where the local hospital has a dedicated bereavement suite away from the main labour ward, they can process that pain in privacy and peace." According to figures from bereavement charity Sands, 13 families in the UK lose a baby each day before, during, or shortly after Kettering General Hospital, (KGH,) families who suffered baby loss were previously placed in rooms within the main labour ward. That changed after the launch of the Twinkling Stars Appeal in 2019, which raised £1m for a new bereavement suite, now under construction as part of a maternity unit Wrighting, who herself was born a premature baby at KGH, said: "Kettering General cares for up to 100 families a year who lose a baby. "They will now be cared for in a suite that has a bereavement area with... a cold cot for precious time with their babies."What we can do is try... not to add to those feelings and make an awful situation even worse by not providing support in an understanding environment."The bill will now go to a second reading on 16 May. Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
The Independent
29-04-2025
- Health
- The Independent
MP calls for every new maternity unit to have bereavement suite
Every new maternity unit should have a bereavement suite so grieving parents can 'process that pain with privacy and peace', an MP has said. Rosie Wrighting warned MPs that the experience of baby loss was 'made more difficult' if parents were 'surrounded by mothers and families celebrating new life'. The MP for Kettering, who said she was born eight weeks early, proposed the Maternity Units (Requirement for Bereavement Suite) Bill, which if agreed to would require new units to have a dedicated bereavement facility. 'For anyone who is experiencing the loss of a baby, it is already one of the most difficult times in their life,' Ms Wrighting told the Commons. 'It's made more difficult when they experience this in a maternity ward in their hospital surrounded by mothers and families celebrating new life. 'There is no number of new facilities that can take that pain away but for parents where the local hospital has a dedicated bereavement suite, away from the main labour ward, they can process that pain with privacy and peace.' In her speech, Ms Wrighting praised staff at Kettering General Hospital's Rockingham Wing, where she was born, who she said 'help people go through one of the most difficult experiences anyone can imagine, and they continue to do this despite years of underfunding and understaffing'. The Northamptonshire MP said the hospital – where there are plans for a new bereavement suite as part of a Rockingham Wing extension – was where her 'mum fought for her life after a complicated and traumatic birth which was made even more difficult as she was surrounded by happy and healthy mothers and their babies'. She described a suite as a 'safe, separate space where families are not coming face-to-face with other pregnant women and newborn babies while going through such a heartbreaking time'. According to the stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands, 13 families a day lose their babies before, during or shortly after birth. 'So, this is bigger than Kettering or Northamptonshire,' Ms Wrighting said, and added that she had looked at fundraising website JustGiving before her speech to find it 'full of appeals from every corner of the country for funding for new facilities, specialist counselling or trained midwives for bereavement services'. She told MPs: 'I can't even begin to express the admiration I have for parents who are taking their pain and channelling it into making things better for those who come after them.' Ms Wrighting's Bill will be listed for a second reading debate on May 16.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
MP calls for every new maternity unit to have bereavement suite
Every new maternity unit should have a bereavement suite so grieving parents can 'process that pain with privacy and peace', an MP has said. Rosie Wrighting warned MPs that the experience of baby loss was 'made more difficult' if parents were 'surrounded by mothers and families celebrating new life'. The MP for Kettering, who said she was born eight weeks early, proposed the Maternity Units (Requirement for Bereavement Suite) Bill, which if agreed to would require new units to have a dedicated bereavement facility. 'For anyone who is experiencing the loss of a baby, it is already one of the most difficult times in their life,' Ms Wrighting told the Commons. 'It's made more difficult when they experience this in a maternity ward in their hospital surrounded by mothers and families celebrating new life. 'There is no number of new facilities that can take that pain away but for parents where the local hospital has a dedicated bereavement suite, away from the main labour ward, they can process that pain with privacy and peace.' In her speech, Ms Wrighting praised staff at Kettering General Hospital's Rockingham Wing, where she was born, who she said 'help people go through one of the most difficult experiences anyone can imagine, and they continue to do this despite years of underfunding and understaffing'. The Northamptonshire MP said the hospital – where there are plans for a new bereavement suite as part of a Rockingham Wing extension – was where her 'mum fought for her life after a complicated and traumatic birth which was made even more difficult as she was surrounded by happy and healthy mothers and their babies'. She described a suite as a 'safe, separate space where families are not coming face-to-face with other pregnant women and newborn babies while going through such a heartbreaking time'. According to the stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands, 13 families a day lose their babies before, during or shortly after birth. 'So, this is bigger than Kettering or Northamptonshire,' Ms Wrighting said, and added that she had looked at fundraising website JustGiving before her speech to find it 'full of appeals from every corner of the country for funding for new facilities, specialist counselling or trained midwives for bereavement services'. She told MPs: 'I can't even begin to express the admiration I have for parents who are taking their pain and channelling it into making things better for those who come after them.' Ms Wrighting's Bill will be listed for a second reading debate on May 16.
The Independent
08-03-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Youngest female MP ‘questioned more about OnlyFans than manifesto pledges'
Labour MP Rosie Wrighting, 27, has revealed she was questioned more about whether she had an OnlyFans account than her party's manifesto pledges during the last election. Highlighting the misogyny she has faced both online, and in her day-to-day life, in a commons debate ahead of International Women's Day, the MP for Kettering described being called 'stupid' and 'a child playing politics'. 'I know many great women who have not stood for Parliament because of online abuse or worries about their safety, and this House is worse off because of it,' Wrighting told MPs.
The Independent
06-03-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
MP recalls online abuse as she urges women to continue entering politics
Parliament's youngest female MP has insisted online abuse should not deter women from entering politics, adding: 'There's a place for you here and we need you.' Labour's Rosie Wrighting said several insults have been directed at her, such as 'Barbie' and 'stupid girl', and she is aware of 'many great women' who have not stood for Parliament because of safety concerns. The 27-year-old's voice cracked with emotion as she spoke of how online threats 'translate to real life', including making sure no-one is following her home and worries over her drink being spiked on a night out. Speaking during the International Women's Day debate, Ms Wrighting told the House of Commons: 'I rise today as the youngest woman in Parliament and the first woman to represent my constituency of Kettering. 'I was also raised by women – my mum, my nan and my aunt Emma. 'I am proudly a Gen Z woman. Like many others my age, I grew up on social media, I watched this series of Love Island, this weekend I'm going to see Sabrina Carpenter and I'm still shocked about Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury's break-up. 'But absolutely none of that takes away from my ability to serve my constituents. 'Being a young woman in this place has its pitfalls and I know that women MPs bear the brunt of online abuse, making ourselves read daily online comments which criticise our appearance, question our intelligence and threaten our safety. 'In a post when the election was called last year, more people asked me if I had an Only Fans account than about our manifesto pledges. 'Online I am called Barbie, I'm a stupid girl and child playing politics and many more creative things that I can't say in this House. 'I know many great women who haven't stood for Parliament because of online abuse or worrying about their safety and this House is worse off because of it. 'My message to women who are thinking about getting into politics is that there's a place for you here and we need you.' Ms Wrighting added: 'The things I see on my screen also translate to real life. 'And when I walk back to my flat tonight, I won't have my headphones on so I can hear if someone is following me. 'And when I go out with my friends, I won't put my drink down because I am worried I might be spiked. 'When a man asks for my number on the Tube, all I'm thinking is how I can let him down gently because I'm worried how he might take it if I say no.' Labour MP Polly Billington (East Thanet) intervened to highlight security warnings issued to candidates for Parliament. She said: 'The advice that we got from a bunch of white men, we kind of looked at each other, us female candidates, and observed almost everything they were suggesting we did – walk in the light, don't have your headphones on, be careful where you stand on a platform – were basically the advice we'd been given by our mothers at the age of 12.' Ms Wrighting agreed with her party colleague, adding: 'Coming into this place, it's sad to say that advice wasn't new to us and it is sadly things we've had to learn through our own experiences.' She went on to say she is surrounded by 'many, many great colleagues, great male colleagues' in Parliament, adding: 'I know we cannot accelerate action, uplift or empower young women without also engaging young men. 'We have to be clear: we cannot tackle violence against women and girls without supporting young men at this vital point.' Labour MP Natalie Fleet (Bolsover) earlier said rape threats 'are an accepted part of the job' for women MPs. She said: 'If we look at the last parliament, the BBC was discussed more often than childcare. You were five times more likely to hear about fishing than you were the menopause. This historic House that women died to get us into, spent more time discussing football than rape.' She added: 'Every single one of us has either been raped or knows somebody who has been raped. Rape is a part of our story as women, yet a part that we don't tell. 'So I want to tell you about rape and being an MP. Rape threats are an accepted part of the job. 'Thank you to the minister (Jess Phillips) for speaking up about this disgusting truth. I am the 690th woman MP so Rape Crisis estimates that a quarter of women have been raped or sexually assaulted. If we apply that data to MPs, that means 172 of us have been raped. 'Half of those 86 women MPs will have been raped more than once. Statistically, 28 of them will have reported this and if there's a miracle at the very best, on an optimistic day, there's a potential that one could have led to conviction.' Ms Fleet further stated: 'I've spoken publicly about giving birth after being the victim of statutory rape, and I am sick of being told I am brave. I don't want to be brave. I want it to be expected that we tell our truth.'
