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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

Clinical practice guides

Workshops and webinars

Safer Baby Bundle Update 2023

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

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.

Workshops and webinars

Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR) Workshop

The FGR workshop is an education program for clinicians to improve antenatal detection and management of FGR. The workshop takes around 2.5hrs and is run via an online platform. Dates coming soon, contact StillbirthCRE@mater.uq.edu.au for more information.

Timing of Birth

The Stillbirth CRE & the Australian Preterm Birth Prevention Alliance have co-designed a Timing of Birth education program for clinicians, with key focus areas including talking about stillbirth, shared decision-making and optimum timing of birth.

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 and support from:

Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine

PERINATAL SOCIETY of Australia & New Zealand

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.