With pregnancy bringing with it a wealth of intricate health and wellbeing issues and an abundance of questions from expectant mothers, we have collated a selection of useful articles, websites and further reading that may prove useful to those looking to learn more on pre-term subjects.

From charities that fund ongoing research, to NHS and NICE guidelines or contact details for your local maternity services, please explore the below for further information.

Tommy’s Baby Charity

Hologic Ltd supports the work of the Tommy’s Baby Charity. The Tommy’s Baby Charity fund research into miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth, and provides pregnancy health information to parents.

Tommy’s Baby Charity are continually working to make the UK the safest place in the world to give birth, championing the idea that every parent has the right to a healthy pregnancy and baby.

Discover Tommy’s Baby Charity. 

Further Information and Support on Preterm Birth

Read the NHS pages on premature labour and birth.

Read the NICE guidance on preterm labour and birth.

Local Support

Searching for your nearest hospital? Use this helpful NHS locator tool by inputting your post-code and browsing through the recommendations.

If you are looking more specifically for NHS maternity services across the UK, we recommend using this NHS locator tool instead.

Make suggestions

If you would like to suggest further resources that have been intrinsic in your research, that you feel could be helpful to the wider maternity community, please feel free to get in touch with our UK representatives via our Contact Us page.