Louise Thompson

And also the stats are quite scary.

And I don't want to sit here and just fearmonger because obviously a huge...

part of your following, huge demographic, will be women of childbearing age.

I think this is really about educating people.

So yeah, there was this Guardian article that came out last week which suggested that the Tories, they wanted to obviously work to reducing maternal deaths

Over a 15 year period, I think that the sad reality is that in the last 14 years, the death rates have gone up by 20%.

So it's kind of turned into a national scandal.

And we're kind of we just want to want to move things.

So within the first 24 hours, we had 10,000 signatures.

And for any petition, you need 10,000 signatures to get a response from Parliament.

You've got six months, so there's a six-month window.

And we have until July to hopefully get a lot, a lot, a lot of signatures.

So hopefully lots of your beautiful listeners can help with that.

And then if you reach 100,000, they will consider debating it in Parliament.

Very scary, and there's a lot of data on the inequality of the care, as you say, quite rightly point out, especially disproportionately more black and Asian mothers that end up dying and people that live in less privileged parts of the country.

And I think it's really shocking.

And you say it should be something that has been considered really regularly and discussed in Parliament really regularly.

Instead, there are regular reports and inquiries into the problem, but nobody is actioning anything.

And I think like the birth inquiry, which did come out in 2024, set a long list of recommendations, which were things like properly educating birthing parents,

creating more mother and baby units for parents that have suffered, six week checkup postpartum for mothers as well as the babies, adequate funding for midwives, obstetricians and anaesthetists to recruit them, train them and also retain them because I think the retention rates are really poor at the moment.