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Article: Miscarriage - a death with no sympathy card.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2006
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Byline: SARAH STACEY
Over one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage: that's about 250,000 in this country annually, according to the Miscarriage Association. A further one per cent are ectopic pregnancies, where the fertilised egg lodges in the Fallopian tube (if it grows, it will usually rupture the tube causing heavy internal bleeding, which is a medical emergency). The sense of sadness can be overwhelming but, in a study of 300 women in the UK who'd lost a pregnancy, only 29 per cent felt well cared for emotionally.
'It's still a taboo - women talk about sex more openly than a miscarriage,' says Margot Toole, 32, who miscarried at eight to nine ...