London’s literary community gave the
Save the Baby Unit £1million Appeal a huge boost, when an
auction of signed books and fabulous prizes, hosted by radio
presenter and journalist Alan Coren, raised £20,000 on June 12th 2007.
ROSA's Evening - April 1st 2007
A packed crowd attended the “Save the BabyUnit Appeal” for St Mary’s Hospital on Sunday evening
1st April 2007 at Rosa’s dining room, 69
Westbourne Park Road, London W2.
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One in seven couples are affected by infertility, one in
every four pregnancies ends in miscarriage and 1% of women
have recurrent miscarriages. It might have happened to you
or to someone close to you and it’s quite likely that they
didn’t tell you because, even today, miscarriage is taboo.
But for the thousands of couples we see at St Mary’s
Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic (RMC) every year the sense of
loss and bereavement, of bewilderment, failure and
embarrassment, is very real and often overwhelming. By the
time they get to us, these couples have tried and failed to
produce a live baby at least three times in a row.
When we started the RMC in 1990 our vision was to link
research with clinical practice in this poorly understood
and under-resourced area of medicine. Today we have an 80%
successful pregnancy rate – healthy, live babies who might
not otherwise exist.
In spite of our laboratories, teaching areas, seminar rooms
and offices being in converted Victorian stables; we’ve
grown to be the largest miscarriage clinic in the world. Our
extensive patient base has enabled us to make
ground-breaking contributions to women’s healthcare in the
treatment of recurrent miscarriage, infertility and
pregnancy complications. We have set standards of care
nationally and internationally.
Despite our successes, a recent Health & Safety inspection
meant that we were forced to close one of our two research
laboratories. If we are to continue our life saving work,
and remain leaders in this field; we need your help.
We refuse to give up and let our work die - so we have
launched an appeal to raise the £1 million we need to
upgrade and modernise our laboratories, teaching, clinical
and patient care facilities.
"For these patients
every month counts as their fertility declines with
time. That is why rebuilding these clinical and
research facilities is so important. It makes all
the difference between giving our patients the
promise of a live take home baby or condemning them
to childlessness forever. This project just cannot
wait."
Prof
Lesley Regan is head of the Department of Obstetrics
and Gynaecology at St Mary's Hospital, Director of
the St Mary's RMC and Visiting Professor to the
Harvard Centre of Excellence for Women's Health.
