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Available for all healthcare professionals in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to promote best practice around the time a baby dies.

Education and resources dedicated to preventing stillbirth and improving health and social outcomes for women.

Website, flyers and videos - co-designed with First Nations women to reduce the risk of Sorry Business Baby (stillbirth).

Safer pregnancy information co-designed with Arabic, Dari, Dinka and Karen-speaking communities to watch, listen and read.

For maternity healthcare professionals on this site

eLearning

Resources & clinical guides

Events

Stronger Bubba Born – Introduction Video

eLearning

Safer Baby Bundle eLearning module

The Safer Baby Bundle module provides evidence based information for maternity health care providers on the 5 elements of the bundle: Smoking Cessation, Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR), Decreased Fetal Movements (DFM), Side Sleeping and Timing of Birth.

IMPROVE eLearning module

IMPROVE – This is a training package of six courses and is designed to support maternity healthcare professionals in responding to women who have experienced stillbirth, and gain crucial learnings. Each course takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and provides essential training for obstetricians, midwives, nurses, general practitioners and antenatal staff.

Resources & clinical guides

The Stillbirth CRE has developed a suite of parent resources, including translated and culturally adapted resources, and number of resources for clinicians to guide clinical care based on best practice evidence. These are available to download at no cost.

Events

Stillbirth CRE National Forum
The Waves of Change Conference integrates the Stillbirth CRE’s Annual National Stillbirth Forum and the QLD Maternal Fetal Medicine Symposium. The Gold Coast University Hospital will host the 3-day event, with a hybrid format so people can attend in person or online. The exciting program has fantastic speakers, new research, and a focus on best practice care after perinatal loss.

Thanks to our partners

Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, is the coordinating centre of the Stillbirth CRE.

The Safer Baby Bundle has been developed by the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth (Stillbirth CRE) in collaboration with support from over 25 partner organisations. See our partners here.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land and their ongoing custodianship. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country.
We acknowledge the diversity across Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, language and practices and that it is vital that all health care services respectfully manage protocol and provide a culturally positive health care experience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.