Shocking figures for baby deaths

EVERY DAY in the UK around 15 babies die before, during or soon after birth.

In the UK in 2015, one in every 227 births was a stillbirth, and there were 3,434 stillbirths in total – around nine per day. A spokesman for SANDS said: “Stillbirth rates remained largely unchanged from the late 1990s to 2011. Since then, the rate has declined and it is now at its lowest level since 1992. But more deaths could be prevented.”

In the same year, 1,652 babies died within the first week of their lives, and another 465 died within the following three weeks.

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