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Without your help up to 380 otherwise normal healthy babies per year may die in the UK.

* Vasa praevia occurs when one or more of the baby's placental or umbilical blood vessels cross the entrance to the birth canal beneath the baby.

* When the cervix dilates or the membranes rupture, the unprotected vessels can tear, causing rapid fetal haemorrhage.

* Vasa praevia occurs in 1:2500 births - approximately 380 babies per year in the UK.

* The fetal mortality rate is estimated to be as high as 95% if the condition is not prenatally diagnosed.

* In cases diagnosed prenatally the survival rate (absent any other congenital defect) is 100%.

* Studies show that there has never been an infant death following antenatal diagnosis of vasa praevia.

* At present there is no recognised protocol for antenatal diagnosis of vasa praevia in the UK.

The UK Vasa Praevia Awareness Group is dedicated to raising awareness of this dreadful condition.

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