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Article: Dr Miriam Stoppard's Health Focus Today: Miscarriage.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2001
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Byline: Miriam Stoppard
ONE in four women will lose a baby before birth at some stage in their life. One in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage.
Former EastEnders stars Martine McCutcheon and Gillian Taylforth, Men Behaving Badly star Caroline Quentin and TV presenters Lorraine Kelly and Anna Ryder Richardson are among those who have suffered the pain and grief of a miscarriage.
The anguish of the bereavement is more intense because all the hopes and expectations built on the arrival of a new baby are suddenly dashed.
Miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a ...