A lawyer who lost her longed-for IVF baby just 10 days before the legal right to paid maternity leave would have been triggered is fighting to have the law changed to provide bereaved parents with paid leave following miscarriage. Keeley Lengthorn's experiences have even been discussed in Parliament.
A partner at law firm Taylor Rose MW, Keeley, 39, suffered two miscarriages in early pregnancy before losing her third pregnancy, with a baby boy she named George, at 22-and-a-half weeks in March 2022. Keeley, who lives in Bromley, south London, with her husband William, 42, is now supporting the Miscarriage Leave Bill.
The Bill was proposed by MP Angela Crawley, who mentioned Keeley and George in her speech in the House of Commons this month. The Bill would see both parents who suffer a miscarriage at any gestation offered three days’ paid leave.
