You know someone who’s had a miscarriage.

Probably many such people. Maybe your grandmother had one. Your colleague at work. The barista you see every morning.

 After a Miscarriage, Grief, Anger, Envy, Relief and Guilt

There’s no ‘normal’ way to feel after a pregnancy loss.

 All the Pregnancies I Couldn’t Talk About

I’ve been pregnant nine times. I have one child.

 From Miscarriage to Entrepreneurship: How Adia Health Empowers Women To Own Their Fertility Journey

Neither Chan, nor her partner had ever done any fertility or blood tests and as she says, blindly thought that they would get pregnant easily as we are often taught to believe. Sadly, her first pregnancy was lost at 27 weeks, and her second miscarried at 8 weeks. Luckily for Chan, her doctor was proactive and at that point ordered a series of blood tests which showed that she had a blood clotting disorder. Once armed with that knowledge, and a plan to address it, she went onto have three children.

 Miscarriages affect 1 in 6 pregnancies. We need better investigations and treatments October 28, 2019 3.05pm EDT

A miscarriage is a devastating event. Those who experience them are suddenly and unexpectedly robbed of the promise of new life and the dream of an expanded family. The emotional toll can be even greater if conception was delayed, or if fertility treatments were required to achieve a pregnancy.

 The dos and don'ts of supporting women after a miscarriage

So your friend decides to forget the “12 week rule” and tells her family and social networks she is pregnant. She knows the stats – one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage – but she wants to have the support of family and friends around her in case she needs it. Then the worst happens: she miscarries. And she discovers many people around her, including health professionals, lack sensitivity when talking about the miscarriage. Some don’t even acknowledge her loss.

 Who gets to mourn a miscarriage?

Partners and family members feel the loss too.

 Women Breaking the Silence on Miscarriages

Three women who lost babies discuss their experiences and the emotions they felt. Also: Don’t give up on urine tests.

Solving the Mystery of Miscarriages

Centers help find explanations and treatments when pregnancies repeatedly don’t succeed.

Women pregnant after a loss need better support

In a hospital waiting room, dozens of pregnant women and their families are waiting for their turn to be called. They can’t wait to find out the sex of the baby. They can’t wait for those first ultrasound pictures. But one woman sits in a dark corner with her partner. She isn’t excited at all. The last time she was here was when she found out her baby died. And she’s terrified. Unfortunately, this is a common situation.

Conceiving After Miscarriage: How Long Should You Wait?

For those who lose a pregnancy in the first or second trimester, the question of when to begin trying to conceive again can often be fraught with emotion and uncertainty.

First Comes Miscarriage, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes Baby

How an unexpected pregnancy transformed my relationship.

Hidden Dangers of Miscarriages Scar Would-Be Moms

Miscarriage, the loss of a pregnancy before 20 weeks, is a common event, occurring in an estimated 15 percent of all pregnancies, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. But it also can be deadly, according to medical experts, and the grief is two-fold, worrying about the loss of an unborn child and the mother. And for those who survive a dangerous miscarriage, there can be untold complications afterward, including infertility.

I had a miscarriage, and it forced me to rethink everything I believed about abortion

The weeks after my miscarriage were hard. I lay in bed a lot and took the pain pills the doctor prescribed, mostly to help me sleep. My husband grieved, too, and together we had many conversations about who our baby would have been.

Lily Allen Suffers Second Miscarriage

Given that one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, it's surprising that we hear so little about it. Most miscarriages typically happen within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy

Losing the Baby

My week of gestational limbo.

Men Speak Honestly About The Pain Of Mourning A Miscarriage

"There's no funerals for miscarriages. There's no sort of culturally accepted way to process that loss. So [my wife] and I dreamed up one together, a kind of ritual.

Miscarriage - How I Thought I'd Lost My Only Chance at Pregnancy

FOR MOST OF my life I dreamed of having babies. The family joke was that I signed up to work in the church nursery the year after I graduated from it. I couldn’t get enough of ‘the babies’.

Motherhood Won and Lost: One Woman’s Story of Miscarriage

The following is a guest post from “Grace,” a fellow tenure-track professor. She wished to share her story of miscarriage, because reading the stories of others comforted and guided her as she experienced her own.

Prompt diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage vital to good care, says NICE

A new quality standard from NICE aims to improve the care of women experiencing a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy in early pregnancy and could potentially help to save lives.

Risk factors for miscarriage from a prevention perspective: a nationwide follow-up study

The potentially modifiable pre-pregnant risk factors associated with increased miscarriage risk were: age of 30 years or more at conception, underweight, and obesity. During pregnancy the modifiable risk factors were: alcohol consumption, lifting of >20 kg daily, and night work. We estimated that 25.2% of the miscarriages might be prevented by reduction of all these risk factors to low risk levels.

The Cost of a Miscarriage

Women need more options when dealing with the emotional—and financial—cost of a lost pregnancy.

When a Beginning is Not a Beginning

Over the course of my training to become a biological anthropologist with a specialty in women’s reproductive ecology and life history theory, or ladybusiness expert , I have learned a lot about miscarriage. Only it wasn’t miscarriage, it was spontaneous abortion.

“I Am Happy Again”

A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.