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🚨 MiBirth Open Day is coming up fast! 🚨
We’ve been busy behind the scenes, and we’re thrilled to invite you to a day full of exciting updates, engaging talks, and open conversations.
🗓️ Thursday 4th September 2025
🕚 11am–3pm
📍 Antenatal Education Room, 8th Floor, North Wing, St Thomas’ Hospital
✨ What to expect:
🧠 Short talks from our amazing researchers and radiographers
🎤 Topics include birth prediction, comfort in late pregnancy MRI, AI, mental health, and more
📊 Posters and demos showing the latest from the MiBirth study
💬 A chance to meet the team, ask questions, and learn about the work we're doing
☕ Free tea, coffee, cakes — and great conversation!
💙 Whether you’re a patient, staff member, student, or just curious — everyone is welcome. Come see how we’re rethinking pregnancy care and using MRI to support safer, more informed births.
Updated July 2025
miBirth team achievements! 👏🧠
Updated July 2025
Our research fellow Hadi was at the UCLH Joint Research Office annual event that celebrates and shares the wide range of research taking place within UCLH. The MiBirth Study was one of over 50 stalls showcasing exciting work to hospital staff, school students, members of the public, and senior hospital leaders.
Hadi, represented the MiBirth Study at the stall and had lots of engaging conversations with visitors, who responded very positively to the study. We were especially delighted that one of our study participants joined us at the event.
We’re passionate about raising awareness of the MiBirth Study and are looking forward to our next Open Day at St Thomas’ in September – everyone is welcome!
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Participant feedback!
Updated July 2025
miBirth team achievements! 👏🧠
Updated July 2025
Our research fellow, Simi, presented her work at the prestigious Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists World Congress! Simi has been working on a new way to automatically measure the cervix using MRI scans. These measurements, taken later in pregnancy, may help us understand the chances of needing a caesarean birth.
Updated July 2025
miBirth team achievements! 👏🧠
Updated June 2025
👏 Huge congratulations to our colleague Dr Hadi Waheed, who presented his work at the British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society Conference and received the award for "Best Presentation"! 🏆
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miBirth team achievements! 👏🧠
Updated June 2025
👏Big congratulations to our colleague Dr Simi Bansal, who presented her research at the London School of Gynaecology Conference!
Simi's work focuses on the maternal cervix.
"We have automated the process of creating 3D models of the cervix. The measurments from these models will go into our overall predictive model!"
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Follow our study progress!
Updated June 2025
We're nearly halfway there!
Huge thanks to the 229 women who have helped us get this far.
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Follow our study progress!
Updated February 2025
Watch the MiBirth study grow as more participants join the study!
Follow our study progress!
Updated January 2025
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Watch the MiBirth study grow as more participants join the study!
Updated January 2025
From everyone in the miBirth team!
Celebrating 150 miBirth participants at our team Christmas party!
Updated December 2024
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Follow our study progress!
Updated November 2024
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Watch the MiBirth study grow as more participants join the study!
Updated October 2024
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miBirth Open Day!
Updated August 2024
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The miBirth team hosted a brilliant event, showcasing their research and celebrating the study participants!
miBirth Open Day!
Updated August 2024
Follow our study progress!
Updated August 2024
Watch the MiBirth study grow as more participants join the study!
Participant experience
Follow our study progress!
Updated May 2024
Published May 2024
The miBirth team presents preliminary results!
The miBirth team joined the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Annual Conference in Liverpool and proudly presented some of the study’s preliminary results.
The comfort of our participants is always top priority and our results show exactly that:
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91% of women told us they found their scan comfortable or very comfortable.
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14% of women felt comfortable enough to fall asleep during their scan.
Thank you to all our participating mothers and babies!
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Happy New Year!
Published January 2024
The MiBirth Study has got off to a flying start!
So far, we have scanned 15 amazing women, who have been kind enough to take part in our study to improve birth outcomes. We have had 5 miBirth babies arrive, who have all contributed to science before they were even born.
Thank you so much to the women who have participated so far! We couldn’t do it without you. If you would like to participate, please get in touch here .
Our very first participant had this to say about our study:
"For me it was great to be part of the research so I could do my bit to contribute.’
‘I think everything was amazing!"