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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 8h

Last night we launched two new resources:

🧰 Pregnancy Loss & the Workplace: A Toolkit for Employers & Employees

📖 Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks}

Available on our website-please share & use 🙏

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

New national resources launched to create more compassionate workplaces for people who experience pregnancy loss | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 19h

Why are women still treated as a statistical anomaly in health research?

@quiteclare.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Clare Moriarty: Why are women still treated as a statistical anomaly in health research?

I remember a doctor discussing the “challenging” recovery that follows a Caesarean, as though launching a human skull through the birth canal was mere lady stuff

www.irishtimes.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight in City Hall, Cork we published "Words at Work"

Each text in the book is a direct quotation from a person with experience of pregnancy loss who participated in the PLACES Project
www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social #PLRG_WordsAtWork

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 1d

Listen Back: One woman’s story of isolation through her miscarriage - @quiteclare.bsky.social speaks with Shane Coleman on @newstalkfm.bsky.social Breakfast

link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGS8Lr5DLXNx

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 1d

💜 Join us during #BabyLossAwarenessWeek #BLAW as we continue our efforts to effect change around all forms of pregnancy & infant loss: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @danielnuzum.bsky.social @lauralinehan.bsky.social @caroline-oconnor.bsky.social @carolinemjoyce.bsky.social

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 3d

The Health Research Podcast Episode 3: Gaps in Women's Health Research

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmA5...

@hrbireland.bsky.social

The Health Research Podcast Episode 3: Gaps in Women's Health Research

YouTube video by Health Research Board

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 7d

#BSACP2025 takes place today. Best wishes to all involved including our own Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan. The rest of the team will be following developments remotely.

@cosrh.org @bpas.bsky.social @msichoicesuk.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 16d

Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan will present two posters at the upcoming 2025 @bsacp.org.uk Conference in London - do say hello if you're there!

Read more about our research here: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

#BSACP2025 @cosrh.org @bpas.bsky.social @msichoicesuk.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 10d

'Publishers said baby loss was too sad a subject' - we hear this a lot too in our work

#EndTheSilence #EndTheStigma #PregnancyLoss

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cambridgeshire author was told baby loss 'was too sad a subject'

Ali Harris says she had many rejections for her novel inspired by her own experiences.

www.bbc.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 13d

‘The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death’: Florence Welch on sexism, screaming and the lost pregnancy that nearly killed her

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

#EctopicPregnancy #Miscarriage

‘The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death’: Florence Welch on sexism, screaming and the lost pregnancy that nearly killed her

The Florence + the Machine singer talks about life after devastating loss, performing with Taylor Swift and the double standards for women in music

www.theguardian.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 16d

International Week of Deaf People 2025 & #IrishSignLanguage Awareness Week are taking place from 22–28 September 2025

We have lots to do in this area, sharing our Recurrent Miscarriage ISL video as a start: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWY5...

#IWDP25 #IDSL2025 @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

Recurrent miscarriage - Information & guidance (Irish Sign Language)

YouTube video by Pregnancy Loss Research Group UCC

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 16d

Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan will present two posters at the upcoming 2025 @bsacp.org.uk Conference in London - do say hello if you're there!

Read more about our research here: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

#BSACP2025 @cosrh.org @bpas.bsky.social @msichoicesuk.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 16d

🆕 Resource: #PLRG_Bingo

⚠️ We hear these myths about pregnancy loss every day, through our research, clinical & advocacy work

💡 We have created #PLRG_Bingo to shine a spotlight on these myths & to present evidence as to why they are inaccurate

🔗 Access the full resource: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

A bingo card with myths about pregnancy loss along with a short description of the resource and links/QR code to https://www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancyloss/policyandadvocacy/plrgbingo

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 17d

Loss of a baby ‘rarely discussed’ and Ireland lags behind other countries in prevention, obstetrician warns

www.independent.ie/irish-news/l...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @oireachtasnews.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Loss of a baby ‘rarely discussed’ and Ireland lags behind other countries in prevention, obstetrician warns

The death of a baby or the loss of a pregnancy is a devastating yet unfortunately common experience in Ireland, and sadly rarely discussed, a leading obstetrician said today in calling for more preven...

www.independent.ie

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 17d

Together with Féileacáin & the Miscarriage Association of Ireland we are hosting a drop-in information session for Oireachtas members to learn more about key research, strategies & priorities from 10:00-16:30 in The Trinity Suite, Buswell’s Hotel in Dublin today

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 17d

🆕 An Oireachtas Cross-Party Group on Pregnancy & Infant Loss has been established to drive meaningful action in improving services, supports & outcomes in Ireland

🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @oireachtasnews.bsky.social @ucc.ie @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

Cross-Party Oireachtas Group on Pregnancy and Infant Loss established | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

www.ucc.ie

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 17d

🆕 An Oireachtas Cross-Party Group on Pregnancy & Infant Loss has been established to drive meaningful action in improving services, supports & outcomes in Ireland

🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @oireachtasnews.bsky.social @ucc.ie @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

Cross-Party Oireachtas Group on Pregnancy and Infant Loss established | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

www.ucc.ie

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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 21d

"ongoing need to examine femtech’s role in shaping global dynamics of reproductive, labor, & environmental justice, in addition to neoliberal approaches to healthcare more broadly"

Danica Facca, Jodi Hall, Gail Teachman, Joanna Redden, Lorie Donelle

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#FemTech

Femtech in context: A critical conceptual (re)view - Danica Facca, Jodi Hall, Gail Teachman, Joanna Redden, Lorie Donelle, 2025

Emerging as a commercial category in 2016, ‘femtech’ has been publicly celebrated as a category of consumer-based digital health technologies designed to suppor...

journals.sagepub.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 23d

New NIH panel seeks to reduce 'preventable' stillbirths in U.S.

www.upi.com/Health_News/...

New NIH panel seeks to reduce 'preventable' stillbirths in U.S. - UPI.com

The National Institutes of Health on Tuesday launched a new initiative to reduce the rate of stillbirths in the United States.

www.upi.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 23d

🆕📄 Socioeconomic deprivation as a risk factor for stillbirth: a case-control study

✍️ Jessica Keane, Paul Corcoran, Sara Leitao, Joye McKernan, Edel Manning, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social, Richard Greene

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@npec-ucc.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

Socioeconomic deprivation as a risk factor for stillbirth: a case-control study

Stillbirth is a devastating outcome for families. Identifying and addressing risk factors is of crucial importance. Level of deprivation has been link…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 28d

🆕📄 Ethnic Disparities in Perinatal Mortality and Associated Factors: A Nationwide Cohort Study

🗣️ Laura Robinson, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social, Sara Leitao

🔗 obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@bjog.bsky.social @npec-ucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

OBGYN

Objective To examine factors associated with perinatal mortality (PM) in women in minority ethnic groups (MEG) in Ireland and assess differences between them and their white counterparts. Design R...

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 28d

📺 Tune in to Ireland AM @virginmediatv.bsky.social @ 08:15 this morning!

🗣️ Laura Guild from Ectopic Pregnancy Ireland will be discussing her own story & the work of the charity

🆕 National information booklet: www.ucc.ie/en/media/res...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Purple tile with an image of the new ectopic pregnancy booklet with a QR code

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · Sep 6

How Katharine, Duchess of Kent Broke Barriers by Speaking About Stillborn Son and the 'Devastating Effect on Me'

people.com/katharine-du...

How Katharine, Duchess of Kent Broke Barriers by Speaking About Stillborn Son and the 'Devastating Effect on Me'

Katharine, the Duchess of Kent broke the royal family's traditional tight-lipped precedent around medical matters by speaking about her stillbirth she experienced.

people.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · Sep 3

Perinatal autopsy reporting practices in Australian stillbirths: a quality review

Tania Marsden, T.Yee Khong, Jane Dahlstrom, Frances Boyle, Mu Cheng, Yin Ping Wong, Stacey Prystupa, Gretchen Pomare, Joanna Perry-Keene, Vicki Flenady, Jessica Sexton

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Perinatal autopsy reporting practices in Australian stillbirths: a quality review

Stillbirth continues to pose a significant public health challenge. Determining the cause of death is crucial for both prevention and providing closur…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 New Ectopic Pregnancy Information Booklet published

🫶 Developed by the PLRG in collaboration with Ectopic Pregnancy Ireland & the National Women & Infants Health Programme @hselive.bsky.social

🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social #EctopicPregnancy

New information and support resource about Ectopic Pregnancy | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

www.ucc.ie

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · Sep 5

Maternal Distress in Pregnancies After Previous Fetal Anomaly: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Aurora Oftedal, Anne Kaasen, Taran Karlsen, Guttorm Haugen, Mona Bekkhus

@bjog.bsky.social

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

OBGYN

Objective To assess mental health throughout pregnancy among women with a history of diagnosis of fetal anomaly. Design Prospective observational study. Setting Tertiary referral centre for feta...

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking forward to the UCC College of Medicine and Health Research Conference tomorrow! We will be sharing our work from across a range of projects ⤵️

More details about the conference, including the full programme & abstracts, available via www.ucc.ie/en/med-healt...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

Tile with details of PLRG presentations at the UCC College of Medicine and Health Research Conference 2025

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