The latest news from the Miscarriage Association
18th September 2019
With three weeks to go to Baby Loss Awareness Week (9 – 15 October), the Miscarriage Association and our supporters are working alongside around 60 other charities and groups to raise of key issues that affect people who have lost a baby, highlighting the need for tangible improvements in bereavement care, research and prevention. This […]
13th August 2019
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon shared her thoughts on miscarriage yesterday on ITV’s ‘Loose Women‘*, saying that she would support the introduction of bereavement leave after miscarriage. The First Minister, who has talked previously about her experience of miscarriage, talked also about the need to remove the stigma associated with miscarriage, about childlessness and about […]
12th August 2019
The Miscarriage Association has developed a new e-learning resource to support medical professionals in providing the best care they can to women experiencing pregnancy loss. The resource is based on the real experiences of health professionals and those who have experienced miscarriage, ectopic or molar pregnancy, and includes films and interactive activities. The resource takes […]
13th May 2019
A project to improve the quality of care that bereaved families receive when they experience pregnancy or baby loss has been found to be making a big difference, and should be rolled out nationally, a new study has found. To ensure bereaved parents and their families are supported in the best way possible, the National […]
1st May 2019
We have published new resources about pregnancy loss and mental health to help people find support and take care of themselves during and after pregnancy loss. Experiencing pregnancy loss may mean you need to take even greater care of yourself for a while. You may have experienced the physical loss yourself, or you may be […]
18th April 2019
Fertility Fest is an arts festival dedicated to ‘fertility and infertility, the science of making babies and modern families’, running from 23 April – 12 May at the Barbican in London. We particularly want to highlight the session on miscarriage, taking place on Monday 29 April from 7-9pm, and produced in association with our charity. […]
16th April 2019
Pregnancy loss can be a very distressing and lonely experience. Sometimes even close family and friends don’t know what to say, say the wrong thing or say nothing at all. Our team at the Miscarriage Association is really proud to launch a very special project that we hope will help both those who experience pregnancy […]
27th March 2019
Coping with Pregnancy Loss, by Petra Boynton, is a new self-help book for those experiencing any kind of baby loss. The book provides practical advice and self-care strategies to help individuals, partners and healthcare professionals. Petra worked closely with the Miscarriage Association in 2014 to run a public awareness campaign to identify the needs of […]
25th March 2019
New research has found that the risk of miscarriage is 32 per cent among women in their early 40s and 54 per cent over the age of 45. The study, carried out by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, involved 420,000 women who became pregnant between 2009 and 2013, and was published in the British […]