Miscarriage

There are no natural remedies or complementary therapies which will help once you’ve been through the sadness of a miscarriage, but it’s worth finding out if your GP or practice nurse can put you in contact with a support group or a counsellor who may be able to give you expert help.

It’s essential that you take time to recover physically. That means not trying to do too much – the housework can wait for a while - getting enough sleep and having a good, balanced diet, with lots of pasta, wholemeal bread, rice, five portions of fruit a day – particularly pineapple, for its healing enzymes – and lots of fluid.

Because miscarriage is such a common event, it can be seen as a ‘routine’ happening and not taken very seriously until you’ve had three or four. This is particularly sad if the cause is a weakness in the cervix, which is an easily treatable condition. Once you become pregnant again your cervix can be sewn up and the stitch removed at the end of pregnancy to allow normal delivery. This common and relatively simple process is called a Shirodkar stitch and it has helped many thousands of women go on to have babies after previous miscarriages.

Before you start trying for another baby it’s also worth looking at our section The Right Start, on the main pregnancy page, to make sure you’re doing everything you can to have a healthy pregnancy.

Another thing worth pointing out here is that fathers are often left out of the grieving process when their wife or partner miscarries a baby. They need help and support, too.

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