One of the animations focusing on #postnatal #mentalhealth Be kind to yourself youtu.be/Nc59TReDclA?...

Blood clots continued to be the leading cause of maternal death in the UK during pregnancy or up to six weeks after the end of pregnancy. The leading causes of death between six weeks and one year after pregnancy were mental health-related

Women living in the most deprived areas continued to have a maternal mortality rate twice that of women living in the least deprived areas

The maternal death rate for Black women decreased in 2021-23 to 28 per 100,000 maternities. Black women were twice as likely to die compared to White women. Asian women and women from mixed ethnic backgrounds were statistically non-significantly slightly more likely to die compared to White women.

In 2021-23, 254 women died during or soon after pregnancy among 2,004,184 maternities, meaning that the rate of maternal death for this period was 12.67 per 100,000 maternities #mbrrace

In case anyone hasn't heard of superstats Thursday - the second Thursday is the one day each month when all audit and similar reports are released - so there is always lots to reflect on