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The dos and don'ts of supporting women after a miscarriage

  • Written by Jade Bilardi, Senior Research Fellow, Central Clinical School, Monash University
The dos and don'ts of supporting women after a miscarriageOur cultural discomfort with discussing any sort of loss means women are often met with a wall of silence.Hermes Rivera

So your friend decides to forget the “12 week rule” and tells her family and social networks she is pregnant. She knows the stats – one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage – but she wants to have the...