Article: Health: `Now, at last, I'll be a mother' Miscarriage is heartbreaking and its causes often mysterious. Clare Rudebeck meets the doctor whose pioneering clinic offers couples hope for the future

When Professor Lesley Regan was training to be a doctor, she was frequently called to see women who had just had a miscarriage. "One particular night, I remember seeing a couple who had just lost their child. They were distraught, asking me why it had happened," she remembers. "I didn't know and the text books couldn't tell me. They would say it was `nature's way' and that nothing could be done. I looked at this couple and thought, `This isn't good enough.'"

Prof Regan is now the head of the largest miscarriage referral unit in the world at St Mary's Hospital in London. The clinic treats 1,000 women every year. Each of these women will have had at least three miscarriages when she begins ...

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