• More than one In five pregnancies ends in miscarriage – around a quarter of a million in the UK each year.
• A further one in one hundred pregnancies is ectopic. This means the pregnancy is developing outside the womb (usually in one of the fallopian tubes). This condition is life-threatening for the mother, and the pregnancy cannot usually survive.
• While individual reactions to miscarriage vary, most women find the experience deeply distressing. For too many women and their partners, their distress is made worse by a lack of understanding amongst those around them.
  Recent research amongst a sample of over 300 women who had experienced miscarriage showed:
• Nearly half (45%) of them did not feel well informed about what was happening to them
• Only 29% felt well cared for emotionally
• Nearly four out of five (79%) received NO aftercare.

Access to information and emotional support has been shown time and time again to help people cope with the experience of loss.

Information Courtesy of:
The Miscarriage Association,
C/o Clayton Hospital,
Northgate,
Wakefield,
West Yorkshire
WF1 3JS

Telephone: 01924 200799 (answerphone out of office hours)
Fax: 01924 298834

For Further information visit the website The Miscarriage Association