A group of lawyers from the Nursing and Midwifery Council and I are going on a sponsored bike ride on 8 September.

I am raising money for research into a condition called intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). ICP is the most common liver condition of pregnancy, affecting 5000 women a year in the UK. It is associated with premature labour, foetal distress and, in severe cases, stillbirth. The charity’s aims are to raise awareness, support people affected by the condition and fund research. Just £2 will print 25 ICP Support leaflets that will help raise awareness, £5 will fund 30 blood sampling tubes to allow the research group to collect samples for the studies, £10 pays for one of the charity’s support line phones for a month and £60 will allow a DNA sample to be analysed to look for genetic variants that cause ICP.