This is our regular two-yearly survey looking at women’s experiences of miscarriage care in the UK.
The Mumsnet Miscarriage Care campaign has run since 2010 and its aims are to ensure that all miscarrying women, and all women experiencing other forms of pregnancy loss, get the good, respectful, empathetic care that they need. You can read more about the campaign here. In the past we’ve had successes such as getting the post-miscarriage surgical procedure renamed, after lots of you said that you found the old terminology upsetting. But, of course, we want to keep the pressure on for better services and care.
Although our campaign is principally about miscarriage care many aspects also apply to other forms of pregnancy loss, such as ectopic pregnancies that are ended by medical treatment, or stillbirths. Women who have experienced these since January 2014 are very welcome to fill in the survey; apologies in advance if some of the questions aren’t appropriate to your situation, but there should always be an option for you to say that something isn’t applicable to you.
Because the aim of the survey is partly to compare results with previous surveys and see what (if any) changes there have been, we’re asking only women who have experienced pregnancy loss since January 2014 to fill this one in. (Apologies to those of you who are excluded by this - your input is still hugely welcome on other aspects of the campaign and we will tell you more about how you can get involved soon.)
We know that pregnancy loss can be a difficult thing to talk about, so thank you in advance for sharing your experiences in the survey. We’ll use the results to inform and update the campaign.
A note about language: we’ve tried to be as sensitive as possible in choosing our words here. We hope we’ve made the right choices, but please do give us your feedback if you think something isn’t right.
Here's the survey link: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/92MBXYH
Thanks
MNHQ