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The Miscarriage

Monday 19 June 2006 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM)

When a pregnancy ends in miscarriage the sense of loss is enormous; it is experienced as bereavement. Yet the parents are mourning a child they never knew. Claudia Hammond investigates why this all too common experience - one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage - is so psychologically devastating.

How miscarriage can hit very hard - BBC News article by Marya Burgess, Producer, The Miscarriage

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