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Taking part during pregnancy

This page explains what is involved in taking part in the C-GULL study.

Overview

Everyone who is aged 16 years and older, who is pregnant and has chosen for their care to be at Liverpool Women’s Hospital will be automatically enrolled into C-GULL. This means we’ll access healthcare record data from you and your baby in an anonymous way. This is the minimum way in which you can participate in C-GULL.

We will also invite those who are automatically enrolled to give healthcare data if they would like to take part in other parts of the study. We will also ask partners (if applicable) if they would like to take part.

We want to involve all families from different ethnic, cultural, social and family backgrounds so that we can understand how to improve the health and wellbeing of all children in the Liverpool City Region.

Want to take part?

For your first face to face visit to the C-GULL team during pregnancy you will get a £25 voucher.

Donating Poo or Breast Milk

We are trying to find out if the bacteria in babies guts affects how their brain develops and their future mental health - information on how you can help with this is in the animation below:

Baby Body Composition

The C-GULL study has an optional new test called a PeaPod. Performed within the first week after birth. It is a new way for us to understand more about your baby's health and growth. It is a special pod that tells us about the balance of your baby's muscle/tissue versus fat.

Despite the region’s outstanding ability to pull together and look after each other we presently have no answers as to why our children get such a tough deal compared with others within the UK. C-GULL will help us understand and address the many underlying health and social issues which drive these inequalities and, most importantly, help us to improve the future for the next generation of children.

Professor Louise Kenny

[email protected]
+44 (0)151 795 6700

C-GULL Study based in the Harris-Wellbeing Research Centre
Ground Floor
Liverpool Women's Hospital
Crown Street, L8 7SS

The C-GULL Study is funded through a Wellcome Trust Longitudinal and Population Study Award (Reference: 217067/Z/19/Z & 226630/Z/22/Z), targeted at providing support to researchers who want to establish, maintain or enhance Longitudinal Population Studies for the benefit of the wider scientific community.

Enhancement funding is provided by matched funding from the University of Liverpool. The civic-owned data resource is supported by the Civic Data Co-operative.

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