The BBC’s Tulip Mazumdar has reported on maternal health and the issues women face across the world. Here she reflects on her own experiences of pregnancy and baby loss.
You never think it will happen to you. But then you’re sitting in scan room 9, you’re staring at your bright blue socks as you wriggle your toes against the white hospital sheets, waiting for the sonographer to say something.
But they don’t. Instead they call someone else in. And in the split second before she speaks, you realise that your world is about to go into freefall.
I. Am. So. Sorry.
I have had four miscarriages in the last two years. Two losses in the first trimester, known as an early miscarriage, and two late losses in the second trimester.
It’s estimated that at least one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage in the UK. Around 50% of the time it’s down to a chromosomal abnormality, where the baby would never have been able to survive, and most women do go on to have a healthy pregnancy.
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