What’ s changing?

We’ re adding a new pregnancy complication condition to the Plus product, which will make a payment of £ 5,000 following a definite diagnosis by consultant obstetrician of one of the following seven conditions:

• disseminated intravascular coagulation( DIC) – a rare blood clotting disorder

• eclampsia – a type of convulsion or fit( involuntary contraction of the muscles) that pregnant women can experience( but excluding pre-eclampsia),

• ectopic pregnancy- when a fertilised egg implants itself outside of the womb, usually in one of the fallopian tubes- with surgery to remove a fallopian tube,

• foetal death in utero after at least 20 weeks gestation,

• hydatidiform mole – a problem with a fertilised egg, which means a baby and a placenta do not develop the way they should and would not survive.

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