How to prevent 10,000 miscarriages a year

How to prevent 10,000 miscarriages a year

From Big Fat Negative: TTC, fertility, infertility and IVF by Big Fat Negative

June 2, 2026 · 53 min · Season 8 · Episode 8

About this episode

The episode discusses how improved care after miscarriages could prevent thousands of miscarriages in the UK.

Oonagh Pickering is one of the research nurses at Tommy's whose study on graduated miscarriage care has already changed how the Scottish NHS approaches care after pregnancy losses -- and now they want England to make a change, too. Oonagh joins us to talk about how offering extra care following first and second miscarriages, including progesterone for threatened miscarriages, extra scans and mental health care, could help to prevent up to 10,000 miscarriages a year in the UK. Meanwhile, Ed Coats, medical director at The Evewell, West London, joins us to talk about rest after embryo transfers -- do you need to? -- Hi, we're Emma and Gabby from BFN, the UK's biggest podcast about infertility and IVF. We're on our eighth series now, but at the beginning we shared our own IVF journeys. If you'd like to hear about them, go back to the first series of the podcast. You'll get to know us better that way, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Emma, Gabby

Guests: Oonagh Pickering, Ed Coats

Topics covered

  • miscarriage care
  • fertility
  • mental health
  • IVF
  • pregnancy loss
  • healthcare

Keywords

  • miscarriage
  • fertility
  • IVF
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • pregnancy loss
  • progesterone
  • extra scans

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tommy's, The Evewell

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