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 You’ll hear from Dr. Ingrid Gran, Senior Research Fellow in Reproductive Medicine and a Consultant at The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford talking about the reasons why miscarriages happen, explaining in more detail about chromosomal abnormalities and it’s linked to female age. Listen in full here

Zara Dawson shared her heartbreaking experience of having to have a medical termination which you can hear in full.

We also heard from Jen Coates, the Director of Bereavement Care at Sands, the Stillbirth and neonatal death charity  explaining just how challenging dealing with Baby loss is for everyone involved and the peer to peer support they have created with bereaved parents who become ‘Befrienders’ and that they also have an app you can get instant access to get the much-needed support you need. Listen in full here.

We also talked Dr. Adrian Lower talking about Asherman’s Syndrome which is caused by the surgical procedures women have to go through when they have a miscarriage,  it was part of a conversation was part of an earlier one with Guest host Katy Lindermann Emilie Jones-Ransley listen in full here

And we also asked Kelly Da Silva, who has founded the Dovecote Childless Support Organisation about the immune tests she had ahead of further fertility treatment and how she then went ahead with treatment with immune therapy as well as intralipid infusions yet still miscarried and decided to stop treatment. Listen in full here

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