Early Pregnancy Loss Coalition

I was very honoured when Isabelle Oderberg invited me earlier this year to join the management committee for the new Early Pregnancy Loss Coalition. It has been very hard keeping the news under wraps, because it’s such an exciting development for Australia.

This is the first time we have a collaboration between peak professional bodies (such as the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Australian College of Midwives), expert clinicians, researchers, economists and major early pregnancy loss support organisations (such as Red Nose, Pink Elephants and Bears of Hope).

Together, we aim to improve care and support for people affected by early pregnancy loss. Our focus is on improved care, communication, data and research and we will be advocating very strongly for dedicated funding, particularly for research.

As a management team, we’re very much ‘the little engine that could’ – six volunteers, each with lived experience of early pregnancy loss, who are all committed to doing whatever we can to improve care and support for other families. I’m very lucky to be a part of it, and can’t wait to see what we can achieve.

Thanks to The Guardian for covering the launch of the EPLC yesterday.