#SaveOurBond
in the media
Find out more on the campaign page and check out our key stories and media coverage below...
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Mums with cancer don't get maternity leave!
Instead it is consumed by hospital appointments, aggressive treatment, debilitatingside-effects.
Time meant for healing and bonding is lost forever.
The Save Our Bond campaign is calling on the UK Government to change the law to allow mums and birthing people diagnosed with cancer in or around pregnancy to defer or pause their maternity leave until after treatment.
Meet Kristie...
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when her daughter was 6 months old.
“I was always too tired or unable to care for her in the way I thought a mother should be able to. I felt very distanced from my daughter both physically and emotionally; and felt guilty for not being there as much as I had hoped in the first year of her life.
Instead of changing nappies and bottle feeding, I was fighting for my life and for my daughter to still have her mum by her side.
I could no longer see into the future, and felt completely robbed of what should have been a time full of happiness. It was a nightmare that felt like it was never going to end.”
3 simple ways you can help...
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