A campaign has been launched to improve the care given to the thousands of vulnerable women who do not get the support and understanding they need from the NHS when they suffer a miscarriage.
Some women, says the website Mumsnet – which is launching the campaign with the backing of doctors and other experts – have to wait several desperate days for the scan that will confirm their baby is dead, while many others are unthinkingly treated in hospital in the same wards and rooms as women who are pregnant or have new babies.
Mumsnet says the many accounts of miscarriage related by its members show that this is a neglected and even taboo issue. Around a quarter of all pregnant women suffer a miscarriage, yet healthcare staff sometimes appear not to understand the devastation they are suffering.
The Miscarriage Association's Ruth Bender Atik says miscarriage is still taboo and that the media and society in general don't like to talk about it...
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